{"id":2140,"date":"2015-10-12T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T03:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2015-10-15T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T04:41:44","slug":"world-health-organisation-collaborating-centre-in-adolescent-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2015\/10\/12\/world-health-organisation-collaborating-centre-in-adolescent-health\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre in Adolescent Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2015\/03\/WHO-290x160-e1425421495374.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2034\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2015\/03\/WHO-290x160-e1425421495374.png\" alt=\"WHO-290x160\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Global improvements in maternal and child health means for the first time, the health needs of adolescents have been noted as an emerging vulnerable demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Across the world, young people share a common burden of chronic physical and mental health disorders such as eating disorders, sexual and reproductive health and non-communicable diseases. Acute and mental health services combined are required to meet the needs of this demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/cah\/\">Centre for Adolescent Health<\/a>, a collaboration between the University of Melbourne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paediatrics.unimelb.edu.au\/\">Department of Paediatrics<\/a>, the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital and the Murdoch Childrens Institute, became the World Health Organization\u2019s first non-European Collaborating Centre in Adolescent Health.<\/p>\n<p>Read more by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/pursuit.unimelb.edu.au\/articles\/who-focuses-on-adolescent-health\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global improvements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}