Across the sites, boys reported tobacco, drug and alcohol use to be their primary health concern, while girls identified sexual vulnerability.
Pregnancy did not appear to be an issue in Ibadan, New Delhi and Shanghai, where sexual encounters were reported to be relatively rare. But among girls who were sexually experienced, in Baltimore more than 50 percent had been pregnant as had 29 percent of the girls in Johannesburg.
Also, more than 25 percent of the adolescent girls in Baltimore, Ibadan and Johannesburg who had ever had partners reported experiencing intimate partner violence in the previous year and more than 10 percent of the adolescent girls in Baltimore and Johannesburg reported sexual violence committed by someone other than a partner in the previous year.
These findings are important, Blum says, because no longer are infectious diseases the major killers of young people. Today, six of the top 10 causes of death among young people aged 10 to 24 are road traffic accidents, self-inflicted injury, interpersonal violence, drowning, fire and war, with the seventh, HIV, highly influenced by behavior and social contexts. Also, half of adult disease has its precursors in childhood and adolescence: smoking and other substance use, obesity, lack of exercise, stress and social adversity.
Across the sites, boys reported tobacco, drug and alcohol use to be their primary health concern, while girls identified sexual vulnerability.
Pregnancy did not appear to be an issue in Ibadan, New Delhi and Shanghai, where sexual encounters were reported to be relatively rare. But among girls who were sexually experienced, in Baltimore more than 50 percent had been pregnant as had 29 percent of the girls in Johannesburg.
Also, more than 25 percent of the adolescent girls in Baltimore, Ibadan and Johannesburg who had ever had partners reported experiencing intimate partner violence in the previous year and more than 10 percent of the adolescent girls in Baltimore and Johannesburg reported sexual violence committed by someone other than a partner in the previous year.
These findings are important, Blum says, because no longer are infectious diseases the major killers of young people. Today, six of the top 10 causes of death among young people aged 10 to 24 are road traffic accidents, self-inflicted injury, interpersonal violence, drowning, fire and war, with the seventh, HIV, highly influenced by behavior and social contexts. Also, half of adult disease has its precursors in childhood and adolescence: smoking and other substance use, obesity, lack of exercise, stress and social adversity.
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