Title: Us and them: worldwide health issues for adolescents.

POPLINE Document Number: 314834

Author(s):

Resnick MD
Bowes G

Source citation:

Lancet, 2007 Mar 31;369(9567):1058-1060.

Abstract:

Why do the health and social needs of young people sometimes command attention, but sometimes remain obscure? The invisibility of certain societal problems is caused partly by a lack of documentation. Examples abound: the stark photographs by Jacob Riis, the Danish reformer who went to the USA in the late 19th century, shocked the conscience of a nation, with images of child factory-workers and extended families languishing in dank tenement buildings. Michael Harrington's The other America: poverty in the United States achieved the same for hunger and poverty as public-health priorities of the early 1960s. In Australia, Burdekin's report highlighted the plight of homeless and socially disadvantaged youth in a way that provoked shock and shame. Common to these examples is the slow agenda-building on behalf of groups that have remained invisible because of their stigmatised or diminished status. (excerpt)

Keywords:

Global
Critique
Recommendations
Evaluation
Adolescents
Adolescent Health
Rural-Urban Migration
Adolescent Health Services
Youth
Age Factors
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Health
Migration
Population Dynamics
Health Services
Delivery of Health Care