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Patton, George C.
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Re-Imagining School Feeding: A high-return investment in human capital and local economies
Investments should be done throughout a child's life- from early age to adulthood- for each to achieve full potential. Evidence show that health and education are two sides of the same coin, and investment in one requires simultaneous investment in the ot
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DCP Chapter 9: Puberty, Developmental Processes, and Health Interventions
Key dynamics of adolescent development and how they provide opportunities for intervention are examined in this chapter. Adolescence remains a time of great developmental plasticity and risk for the onset of a range of disorders that can carry a high burd
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DCP Chapter 5: Global Measures of Health Risks and Disease Burden Adolescents
While adolescents commonly are viewed as healthy in comparison with other age groups, they face a rising number of preventable causes of death due to HIV/AIDS, TB, and maternal causes as well as increased risks to health from alcohol and drug use, unsafe
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DCP Chapter 21: Platforms for Delivering Adolescent Health Actions
This chapter reviews the developmental context of adolescent health then categorizes countries according to their excess burden of disease, before describing six platforms that can deliver health actions to adolescents (ages 10–19 years)—health services,
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DCP Chapter 1: Child and Adolescent Health and Development: Realizing Neglected Potential
The overview chapter explores the health and development needs of the 5 to 21 year age group and advocates for a package of investments to address priority health needs, especially for children ages 5 to 9 years. A new analysis of mortality specifically f
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DCP Chapter 18: Health and Disease in Adolescence
Because the social and environmental determinants of health among adolescents and young adults vary widely, intersectoral and multicomponent interventions offer the best opportunity to improve adolescent health, such as school- and health-service-based in
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Disease Control Priorities (3rd Edition)
From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidiscipl