Making healthcare work for young people

Making Services Work for Poor People

Success in reaching the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those related to human development outcomes, will depend not just on faster economic growth and the flow of resources, but on the ability to translate those resources into services. Thus improving service delivery has become a higher policy priority. The purpose of this Research Program is to find new ways to measure the efficac...

1 Creating Decent Work for Young People :

More than 1 billion people today are between 15 and 25 years of age and nearly 40 per cent of the world’s population is below the age of 20. However, eighty-five per cent of young people live in developing countries where a vast majority of them are struggling to learn and work in a context of extreme poverty. According to World Bank figures, approximately 1.2 billion people struggle for surviv...

Developmentally appropriate healthcare for young people: a scoping study.

BACKGROUND There is increasing recognition of the importance of providing quality healthcare to meet the biopsychosocial needs of young people. 'Developmentally appropriate healthcare' (DAH) for young people is one term used to explain what these services consist of. However, this term remains ill defined. AIMS (i) To analyse the use of the term DAH in the scientific literature and (ii) to id...

Starting Work—A Guide for Young People Leaving School

My first day at work came back vividly when I read this book?the long train journey and the chaos of travelling in the rush-hour, instead of a pleasant walk across the park to school; the sense of excitement at the novelty of going to work in the City, in contrast to the rigidity of rules, even in the Sixth Form; the friendliness of everyone in the office, the surprise that besides an hour for ...

Making it matter: improving the health of young homeless people.