Investing in the Wellbeing of Young People

McDaid, David; Park, A‐La; Currie, Candace; Zanotti, Cara

doi:10.1002/9781118539415.wbwell104

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“…From a socioeconomic perspective, emerg ing adulthood is a crucial period for "mental wealth". Mental wealth is defined as an individual's cognitive and emotional re sources that provide the foundation for educational and vocational success, high quality of life and significant contribution to society 22,23 . The development of mental wealth during emerging adulthood has impacts across the life course and, if disrupted, may perpetuate a cycle of poverty, homelessness or crime 24,25 .…”

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Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care

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Mental ill‐health represents the main threat to the health, survival and future potential of young people around the world. There are indications that this is a rising tide of vulnerability and need for care, a trend that has been augmented by the COVID‐19 pandemic. It represents a global public health crisis, which not only demands a deep and sophisticated understanding of possible targets for prevention, but also urgent reform and investment in the provision of developmentally appropriate clinical care. Despite having the greatest level of need, and potential to benefit, adolescents and emerging adults have the worst access to timely and quality mental health care. How is this global crisis to be addressed? Since the start of the century, a range of co‐designed youth mental health strategies and innovations have emerged. These range from digital platforms, through to new models of primary care to new services for potentially severe mental illness, which must be locally adapted according to the availability of resources, workforce, cultural factors and health financing patterns. The fulcrum of this progress is the advent of broad‐spectrum, integrated primary youth mental health care services. They represent a blueprint and beach‐head for an overdue global system reform. While resources will vary across settings, the mental health needs of young people are largely universal, and underpin a set of fundamental principles and design features. These include establishing an accessible, “soft entry” youth primary care platform with digital support, where young people are valued and essential partners in the design, operation, management and evaluation of the service. Global progress achieved to date in implementing integrated youth mental health care has highlighted that these services are being accessed by young people with genuine and substantial mental health needs, that they are benefiting from them, and that both these young people and their families are highly satisfied with the services they receive. However, we are still at base camp and these primary care platforms need to be scaled up across the globe, complemented by prevention, digital platforms and, crucially, more specialized care for complex and persistent conditions, aligned to this transitional age range (from approximately 12 to 25 years). The rising tide of mental ill‐health in young people globally demands that this focus be elevated to a top priority in global health.

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“…UNICEF [16] emphasises the importance of enabling adolescents to make a healthy and productive transition to adulthood in order to consolidate the gains of early childhood investment. McDaid et al [17] show that interventions during adolescence can mitigate adverse effects of poor well-being during earlier childhood.…”

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Inequalities in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction

Chzhen¹,

Bruckauf²,

Ng³

et al. 2016

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International studies of inequalities in adolescent health tend to focus on the socio-economic gradient in average outcomes rather than their dispersion within countries. Although understanding the extent to which differences in health are related to socio-economic disadvantage is important, focusing exclusively on socio-economic status risks neglecting differences in the distribution of health outcomes within and between countries. To fill this research gap, this study analyses variation in the extent of inequality in the lower half of the distribution in five indicators of adolescent health and well-being -health symptoms, physical activity, healthy eating, unhealthy eating, and life satisfaction -across EU and/or OECD countries that took part in the latest cycle of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. The study then analyses secular trends in health inequalities over a decade between 2001/02 and 2013/14, using data from the latest four HBSC cycles.Inequality in unhealthy eating has the largest cross-country variation of all the indicators studied, while inequality in life satisfaction varies the least. The relative gaps in health and life satisfaction are significantly negatively correlated with the respective average outcomes. Inequality in health symptoms has increased in most of the countries studied between 2002 and 2014. In contrast, inequality in physical activity and in unhealthy eating decreased in the majority of the countries over this decade. About as many countries recorded a long-term increase as those that saw a decrease in inequality in healthy eating and in life satisfaction.

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“…Thus socio-economic gradients in adolescent health are of direct importance to national economic development and social cohesion. Moreover, there is evidence that interventions during adolescence can mitigate adverse effects of poor wellbeing during earlier childhood (McDaid et al 2014).…”

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Family Affluence and Inequality in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction

Chzhen¹,

Pickett²,

Stevens³

2016

Innocenti Working Papers

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Publications produced by the Office are contributions to a global debate on children and child rights issues and include a wide range of opinions. For that reason, some publications may not necessarily reflect UNICEF policies or approaches on some topics. The views expressed are those of the authors and/or editors and are published in order to stimulate further dialogue on child rights. The Office collaborates with its host institution in Florence, the Istituto degli Innocenti, in selected areas of work. Core funding is provided by the Government of Italy, while financial support for specific projects is also provided by other governments, international institutions and private sources, including UNICEF National Committees.

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Investing in the Wellbeing of Young People

Cited by 6 publications

References 83 publications

Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care

Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care

Inequalities in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction

Family Affluence and Inequality in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction

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