Priority Areas for Adolescent Health Measurement.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We establish priority areas for adolescent health measurement and identify current gaps, aiming to focus resources on the most relevant data to improve adolescent health.

Methods

We collected four critical inputs to inform priority setting: perspectives of youth representatives, country priorities, disease burden, and existing measurement efforts. Health areas identified from the inputs were grouped, mapped, and summarized according to their frequency in the inputs. Using a Delphi-like approach, international experts then selected core, expanded, and context-specific priority areas for adolescent health measurement from all health areas identified.

Results

Across the four inputs, we identified 99 measurement areas relevant to adolescent health and grouped them

SUBMITTER: Guthold R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8083105 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature