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      Being an ‘adolescent’: The consequences of gendered risks for young people in rural Uganda

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          The behaviour of adolescents is recognised increasingly as having substantial and long-term consequences for their health. We examined the meaning of ‘adolescence’ in southern Uganda with HIV-positive young people aged 11–24 years. Adolescent girls and boys are described differently in the local language (Luganda). Adolescence is described as a behavioural rather than a life course category and an inherently dangerous one. The practices, risks and consequences of ‘adolescent’ behaviour are highly gendered. Local understandings of adolescence are likely to have a significant impact on the efficacy of interventions designed to minimise their ‘risky behaviour’.

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          In this chapter we review theoretical and empirical advances in research on adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts. First, we identify several trends in current research, including the current emphasis on ecological models and the focus on diversity in and relational models of adolescent development. Next, we discuss recent research on interpersonal relationships, with an eye toward identifying major research themes and findings. Research on adolescents' relationships with parents, siblings, other relatives, peers, and romantic partners, and adolescents' involvement in community and society is reviewed. Future directions in research on adolescent development are discussed.
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              Health for the world's adolescents: a second chance in the second decade.

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              The World Health Organization has produced a multimedia, interactive online report entitled Health for the World's Adolescents: A Second Chance in the Second Decade. The report provides an overview of global and regional estimates of adolescent mortality and disability-adjusted life years, disaggregated by age, sex, and cause, and country-level data on health-related behaviors and conditions among adolescents. It outlines the reasons why adolescence is a unique period in the life course requiring special attention and synthesizes current thinking about the determinants that underlie the differences in health status between adolescents. For the first time, this new report pulls together recommendations and guidance from across the World Health Organization relating to interventions directed to a range of priority health problems, including use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances, AIDS, injuries, mental health, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, tobacco use, and violence, focusing on four core functions of the health sector: supportive policies, service provision, strategic information, and working with other sectors. The report concludes with 10 key actions that would strengthen national responses to adolescent health, and outlines the approaches that are needed to overcome the obstacles to accelerating evidence-informed actions to improve the health of adolescents worldwide--with all the benefits that this will have for public health in the present and across the life course, for this generation and the next.
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                Contributors
                Sarah Bernays
                Dominic Bukenya
                Claire Thompson
                Fatuma Ssembajja
                Janet Seeley
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Childhood
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Childhood
                Journal ID (publisher-id): CHD
                Journal ID (hwp): spchd
                Title: Childhood (Copenhagen, Denmark)
                Publisher: SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                ISSN (Print): 0907-5682
                Publication date (Electronic): 25 September 2017
                Publication date (Print): February 2018
                Volume: 25
                Issue: 1 , 25th anniversary special section: Conversations Past, present and futures of childhood studies: A conversation with former editors of Childhood
                Pages: 19-33
                Affiliations
                [1-0907568217732119]London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK; The University of Sydney, Australia
                [2-0907568217732119]Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda
                [3-0907568217732119]London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
                [4-0907568217732119]Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda
                [5-0907568217732119]London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK; Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda
                Author notes
                [*]Janet Seeley, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Email: Janet.Seeley@ 123456lshtm.ac.uk
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                Publisher ID: 10.1177_0907568217732119
                DOI: 10.1177/0907568217732119
                PMC ID: 5802539
                PubMed ID: 29472746
                SO-VID: 60b1f3d9-f449-4ec1-b8f2-cfa2545dc4bf
                Copyright © © The Author(s) 2017
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                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ( http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                Keywords: adolescence,qualitative research,sub-saharan africa,sexual health
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