Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents
Posted by Share-Net NL on October 12, 2015 at 9:46 am
Adolescents (aged 10 – 19 years) are unique. Not only is adolescence a period of life when people are particularly vulnerable to certain health issues, it is also a time when critical behaviours are shaped that will affect health in the future. They need quality health services that recognize this. WHO and UNAIDS have developed new global standards to improve the quality of health services for all adolescents. These infographics show some of the ways we can do this: http://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/topics/adolescence/graphics/en/
