What is the evidence to prevent injury among adolescents?
Injury is a leading cause of death and disability among adolescents, yet investment in these preventable harms lag behind that of other issues and investments made in younger children.
Research
New wave for VIHCS
2000 Stories: Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (VIHCS) is launching the next exciting phase of their research study.
Students mental health
A Centre for Adolescent Health led project has shown that fostering a positive social-emotional environment in schools can boost students’ mental health.
School connection and mental health
An CAH led project has shown that fostering a positive social-emotional environment in schools can boost students’ mental health and prevent future depression and anxiety.
Early marriage linked to poor mental health
Early marriage linked to poor mental health in young girls and adolescents.
UN torture prevention committee
Lindsay Pearce leads publication on UN torture prevention body’s Australian visit
A second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
Six years after the launch of the original report, Our future: a Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing the health and wellbeing of adolescents is poised at a tipping point. Adolescent health and wellbeing indicators have stagnated while new threats have emerged requiring collective and urgent action.
Investment case to reduce road traffic injuries among adolescents
Millions of young lives lost without global road safety investment, warns new FIA Foundation study.
Adolescent transport and unintentional injuries
Road deaths affect the youngest and poorest hardest. Almost half of adolescents killed in road collisions in 2019 lived in low-income countries. Read more.
Universal health coverage and incarceration
Prof Stuart Kinner and Dr Jesse Young co-author Lancet paper on universal health coverage and incarceration