Youth-friendly primary-care services: how are we doing and what more needs to be done?

Tylee, André; Haller, Dagmar M.; Graham, Tanya; Churchill, Rachel; Sanci, Lena

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(07)60371-7

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“…13 An increasing number of tools are available which support youth-friendly primary care and encourage GPs to make changes that seek to accommodate the developmental needs of young people. Ten years ago WHO produced An Agenda for Change which makes a compelling case for high quality health care while foregrounding friendliness in delivering care.…”

Section: Support For Youth Friendly Primary Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…5 Tylee et al concluded in 2007 that our understanding of the barriers and opportunities to providing youth-friendly primary care-based services had not been translated into practice and, as such, we lacked an evidence base to demonstrate the benefits on health of providing youth-friendly services. 13 Five years on, promising, yet still insufficient, data have been added to the literature.…”

Section: Evidence For the Role Of General Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Global adolescent health: is there a role for general practice?

Roberts

Sanci²,

Haller³

2012

Br J Gen Pract

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Section: Support For Youth Friendly Primary Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evidence For the Role Of General Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Global adolescent health: is there a role for general practice?

Roberts

Sanci²,

Haller³

2012

Br J Gen Pract

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“…Confidentiality and effective, non-judgmental communication are key features of adolescent-friendly services (Ibid; Dickson et al, 2007;Tylee et al, 2007). Ensuring that existing formal health services in Ghana meet the needs of children and adolescents is an important starting point; this will involve investing resources in training and supporting staff to improve inter-generational communication skills and empathetic approaches (WHO, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Out of the reach of children? Young people’s health-seeking practices and agency in Africa’s newly-emerging therapeutic landscapes

Hampshire¹,

Porter²,

Owusu³

et al. 2011

Social Science & Medicine

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Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social science medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Social science medicine, 73/5, 2011, 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.035 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN? YOUNG PEOPLE'S HEALTH-SEEKING AGENCY IN AFRICA'S NEWLY-EMERGING THERAPEUTIC LANDSCAPES AbstractDespite a dominant view within Western biomedicine that children and medicines should be kept apart, a growing literature suggests that children and adolescents (in both Western and developing-country contexts) often take active roles in healthseeking. Here, we consider young people's health-seeking practices in Ghana: a country with a rapidly changing therapeutic landscape, characterised by the recent introduction of health insurance, mass advertising of medicines, and increased use of mobile phones. Qualitative and quantitative data are presented from eight field-sites in urban and rural Ghana, including 131 individual interviews, focus groups, plus a questionnaire survey of 1005 9-to-17-year-olds. We show that many young people take active responsibility for their own (and others') healthcare. However, there is substantial variation in healthseeking practices and associated agency; these processes are shaped by (and also shape) resources available, including economic, social, cultural, psychological, informational and locational forms of capital. Dynamic interactions between resources and healthseeking agency operate within a wider, rapidly-changing therapeutic landscape, which has opened access to a greater range of healthcare possibilities. We conclude by considering implications for health and wellbeing, and suggest possible interventions for facilitating young people to seek healthcare safely and effectively.

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“…[1,2] Health systems and specific projects have used ad hoc tools and instruments to assess the youth-friendliness of health services, but to the extent of our knowledge the only validated instrument developed to measure the World Health Organization (WHO) domains of youth-friendly health services (YFHS) is YFHS WHO+ questionnaire. This questionnaire has been validated for its use in non-differentiated primary health care facilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.…”

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Assessing the dimensionality of YFHS-Swe: a questionnaire to assess youth-friendliness in differentiated health services

Baroudi

Waenerlund

Sebastián

et al. 2017

Global Health Action

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The aim of this study was to assess the dimensionality of YFHS-Swe and identify possible unique factors in the evaluation of youth-friendliness. YFHS-Swe was answered by 1110 youths aged 16 to 25 years visiting youth clinics in Northern Sweden. Thirteen factors were identified by exploratory factor analysis and except for one factor they all proved to fit well and have good reliability when assessed by the confirmatory factor analysis. The YFHS-Swe proved to be credible and suitable for assessing youth-friendliness of differentiated health services in Sweden. With cultural and linguistic adaptations, it can be used in similar settings internationally.

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Youth-friendly primary-care services: how are we doing and what more needs to be done?

Cited by 521 publications

References 50 publications

Global adolescent health: is there a role for general practice?

Global adolescent health: is there a role for general practice?

Out of the reach of children? Young people’s health-seeking practices and agency in Africa’s newly-emerging therapeutic landscapes

Assessing the dimensionality of YFHS-Swe: a questionnaire to assess youth-friendliness in differentiated health services

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