Adolescents
Adolescence (from Latin adolescere 'to grow up') is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood (age of majority). Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years, but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later. For example, puberty now typically begins during preadolescence, particularly in females. Physical growth (particularly in males) and cognitive development can extend into the early twenties. Thus, age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have found it difficult to agree upon a precise definition of adolescence.A thorough …
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World Bank Group · 6 May 2024 English
Guarantees and Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents policy.6 5. The delivery of social protection … following on the new law protecting children and adolescents; (iv) revise social investments to consider …
ActionAid Association (India) · 21 April 2024 English
Definition of Construction Workers The definition of construction workers in the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 should be amended and expanded in line with supply and value chains …
de-addiction centres separately for children and adolescents in all the urban local bodies. >> Ensure developing … vocational training and employment opportunities for adolescents and youths. >> Ensure digital facilities for …
RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 19 April 2024 English
HEALTH SECURITY The 2009-2013 AIFS Framework recognised the multi-faceted nature of the 2007- 08 GFPC, including the competing demands for land between agriculture and biofuel markets, and interactions between food …
guidance for women, S Nanthini children and adolescents in humanitarian and fragile settings is IDSS …
CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 18 April 2024 English
• The review addressed the following policy questions: ▪ In children with ongoing active ITP, what is the overall body of evidence supporting the use of TPO -RAs and rituximab …
Shimano KA, et al. Fatigue in children and adolescents with immune thrombocytopenia. Br J Haematol. … Shimano KA, et al. Fatigue in children and adolescents with immune thrombocytopenia. Br J Haematol. …
PNG NRI: PNG National Research Institute · 18 April 2024 English
The study reported in this paper is to review published and unpublished papers that focus on how to make services including those provided by a helpline available and accessible to …
children living with disability. 2 services to adolescents and adult survivors of GBV and children who need … violence. • Help-seeking behaviour by indigenous adolescents. India • Characteristics of survivors’ support … married women. • Mental health interventions among adolescents. • Acceptability and effectiveness of helplines … Arabia • Utilisation of child helplines among adolescents. Some lessons that can be drawn from papers reviewed … Australian study of help-seeking among indigenous adolescents, Price and Dalgleish (2013) found that barriers …
World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English
In 2012 and in 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolutions urging the international community to intensify global efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). It also called upon …
should ensure the rights of female and male adolescents to sexual and equality reproductive health education …
World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English
recently; and one target is no longer relevant (adolescents and children vaccinated) as vaccination protocols … take up COVID-19 vaccination and vaccination of adolescents and children were suspended and are not The … discontinued since Q4 of 2022; immunization of adolescents and children has been discontinued in Q2 of 2023 … been adjusted to December 31, 2024. Number of adolescents and children under 17 years of age vaccinated …
UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund · 17 April 2024 English
It is important to note that of material in maps do not imply the expression transgender men and non-binary people also experience pregnancy, and that gender-diverse people experience of any …
detention Children (under HIV Disability 18); Adolescents status (10-25); Young Sexual adults (18-25); … identity and sexual orientation, older persons and adolescents. Pre-existing gender inequalities and discrimination … once widely believed to the notion that younger adolescents do not be a biologically incontrovertible sign … pregnancy. The ability to presumption that pregnant adolescents are menstruate was assumed to indicate fertility … roughly 1 billion people, 15 per cent minority adolescents in southern Africa of the global population, …
UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund · 17 April 2024 French
de la CIPD est l’occasion d’orienter les systèmes sociaux et de santé vers la prestation de services qui favorisent l’autonomisation de tous les individus, le respect de leur diversité, la …
les personnes âgées et les adolescentes et adolescents. Les inégalités entre les genres et les discriminations … situation est d’autant plus problématique les adolescents et adolescentes appartenant aux qu’à en croire … services (UNFPA, 2022). contraceptifs pour les adolescents et adolescentes, associé aux investissements … retours sur investissement à plus long terme, les adolescents et adolescentes, de l’incidence de la notamment … d’investir dans sexuelle et reproductive des adolescents, mais aussi des programmes qui font progresser …
J-PAL: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab · 17 April 2024 English
Launching the Learning for All Initiative In response to the current crisis in education and the increasing demand for actionable evidence, and with the generous support of the Bill & …
povertyactionlab.org/media/file-research-paper/reshaping-adolescents-gender-attitudes-evidence-school-based-experiment …
