Adolescent and Young Adult Health
The Adolescent and Young Adult Health Unit (AYH) leads and coordinates WHO-wide efforts to improve the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults.
Webinars
- Commercial and other social determinants of adolescent health
- Substance abuse
Commercial and other social determinants of adolescent health
WHO hosts frequent webinars on the commercial determinants of health covering topics like measurement, sustainability, and governance. Of particular importance for the commercial determinants of adolescent health, the third webinar in the series, from December 2022, covered the challenges of digital spaces, the role of big technology businesses, the regulating of marketing and misinformation, and the need for enhanced health and digital literacy in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Substance use
Less alcohol webinar series: addressing blind spots to accelerate the implementation of effective policy interventions.
In this series, the Webinar: Reducing exposure to alcogenic environments among young people: What can be learned from community-led approaches? aimed to raise awareness of the importance of addressing alcogenic environments to reduce alcohol consumption in young people, present evidence and share examples of how civil society associations are addressing this phenomenon.