Podcast

Coming of age for Adolescent Health - Audio

Dr Russell Viner (UCL Institute of Child Health), Professor George Patton (University of Melbourne), Professor Susan Sawyer (University of Melbourne), Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health)

Young people have traditionally been seen as healthy and low users of health services. In the modern era, the pressures of economic development and social change have particularly had an impact on young people, increasing mortality and ill health at a time when younger child mortality has decreased rapidly.