The health and wellbeing of young people in sub-Saharan Africa: an under-researched area?

A third of sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) population comprises persons aged 10–24 years. These youth are growing up in a context marked by pervasive poverty, limited educational opportunities, high HIV/AIDS prevalence, widespread conflict, and weak social controls. Published research on the broad issues...

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Autores principales: Kabiru, Caroline W, Izugbara, Chimaraoke O, Beguy, Donatien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23406522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-13-11
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description A third of sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) population comprises persons aged 10–24 years. These youth are growing up in a context marked by pervasive poverty, limited educational opportunities, high HIV/AIDS prevalence, widespread conflict, and weak social controls. Published research on the broad issues that affect youth health and wellbeing in SSA is limited and centers heavily on sexual and reproductive health. In this commentary, we provide a broad overview of sub-Saharan African youth, highlight research gaps with respect to youth health and wellbeing, and describe potential avenues to develop the region’s research capacity on youth health and wellbeing.
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spelling pubmed-35837392013-02-28 The health and wellbeing of young people in sub-Saharan Africa: an under-researched area? Kabiru, Caroline W Izugbara, Chimaraoke O Beguy, Donatien BMC Int Health Hum Rights Correspondence A third of sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) population comprises persons aged 10–24 years. These youth are growing up in a context marked by pervasive poverty, limited educational opportunities, high HIV/AIDS prevalence, widespread conflict, and weak social controls. Published research on the broad issues that affect youth health and wellbeing in SSA is limited and centers heavily on sexual and reproductive health. In this commentary, we provide a broad overview of sub-Saharan African youth, highlight research gaps with respect to youth health and wellbeing, and describe potential avenues to develop the region’s research capacity on youth health and wellbeing. BioMed Central 2013-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3583739/ /pubmed/23406522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-13-11 Text en Copyright ©2013 Kabiru et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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