Mytton, Oliver;
Donaldson, Liam;
Godding, Anne-Lise;
Mathews, Gabrielle;
Ward, Joseph;
Viner, Russell;
Greaves, Felix;
(2024)
Changing patterns of health risk in adolescence: implications
for health policy.
The Lancet Public Health
, 9
: e629-: e634.
10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00125-7.
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Abstract
Adolescence is a time of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. This period is a very sensitive developmental window; environmental exposures, the development of health behaviours (eg, smoking and physical activity), and illness during adolescence can have implications for lifelong health. In the UK and other high-income countries, the experience of adolescence has changed profoundly over the past 20 years. Smoking, drug use, and alcohol consumption have all been in long-term decline. At the same time, obesity and mental ill health have increased and are now common among adolescents, with new risks (ie, vaping, psychoactive substances, and online harms) emerging. In this Viewpoint, we describe these and related trends in England and the UK. Although previous work has explored these changes in isolation, in this Viewpoint we consider them collectively. We explore what might be driving the changes and consider the implications for practice, policy, and research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Changing patterns of health risk in adolescence: implications for health policy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00125-7 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00125-7 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193400 |
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