Why isn’t more attention paid to preventive health? A new book edited by Helen Sykes focuses on just this question. In contributing a chapter on adolescent health, Centre for Adolescent Health academics Professor Susan Sawyer and Professor George Patton join other leading Australian academics such as Professors Fiona Stanley and Sir Gustav Nossal whose contributions span topics such as global health, health policy and health systems, child and adolescent health, indigenous health, ageing and health, mental health and climate change and health. The second part of the book features writing by young people.

Why Adolescent Health