WHO Fact Sheet: Adolescent and Young Health
2023
This fact sheet from the World Health Organization (WHO) focuses on adolescent health, describing key facts about health conditions, risks, and solutions. It includes basic descriptive statistics on leading causes of adolescent death due to HIV, suicide and interpersonal violence, and road traffic injuries, and highlights the role of teenage pregnancy and mental health disorders on adolescent health. It includes basic information about risk factors such as alcohol, tobacco, lack of physical activity, unprotected sex, and exposure to violence.
WHO Fact Sheet: Adolescent and Young Health
Source:
Adolescents and Young Health. Fact Sheet. World Health Organization 2023. https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescents-health-risks-and-solutions.