Youth

This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.

MeSH scope note: The period of life beginning with the appearance of secondary sex characteristics and terminating with the cessation of somatic growth. The years usually referred to as adolescence lie between 13 and 18 years of age.

RELATED SITES

- School health and youth health promotion
- Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH))
- Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR))

RELATED LINKS

- World No Tobacco Day 2008: Tobacco-free youth
- Youth and road safety
- Global youth tobacco survey (WHO Regional Office for Africa)
- Child injuries and violence
- Oral health in school children and youth
- Physical activity and young people

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