Global perspectives on the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents: patterns, prevention, and potential
Abstract
Worldwide, societal shifts and behavioural patterns exacerbated by unique developmental vulnerabilities create a confluence of factors that place today's adolescents at heightened risks for poor health outcomes. Country-level data show that continued investment in effective prevention and treatment strategies is essential to protect adolescents' sexual and reproductive health. Whereas strategies must be tailored to the developmental needs of this age group and their social contexts, effective approaches are multifaceted. All adolescents need access to quality youth-friendly services provided by clinicians trained to work with this population. Sex education programmes should offer accurate, comprehensive information while building skills for negotiating sexual behaviours. Girls and boys also need equal access to youth development programmes that connect them with supportive adults and with educational and economic opportunities. Although progress has been made since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, adolescents continue to be disproportionately burdened by threats to their sexual and reproductive health.
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The age at which young women in higher resourced countries first bear children has significantly increased over the past 40 years, and this trend is now beginning in many lower and mid-resourced countries as well.
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From Becoming a sexual being: The “elephant in the room” of adolescent brain development (2017) · cites this paper as Bearinger et al., 2007
At the same time that the age of reproductive capacity has declined, the age at which it is socially desirable for young people to bear children has continued to increase.
“At the same time that the age of reproductive capacity has declined, the age at which it is socially desirable for young people to bear children has continued to increase.”
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- Authors
- Bearinger, L. H., Sieving, R. E., Ferguson, J., & Sharma, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- United Nations Population Fund (US)
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-04
- Volume
- 369
- Issue
- 9568
- Pages
- 1220-1231
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W2048935819
- Cited by
- 762
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 42 · 2017: 51 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 72 · 2014: 50 · 2013: 46 · 2012: 38
- FWCI
- 6.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Health and Behaviors
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Keywords
- adolescent sexual and reproductive health, youth-friendly services, sex education, adolescent sexual behavior, adolescent pregnancy, HIV prevention, gender equality, adolescent development, youth development programs
- MeSH terms
- Abortion, Legal, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Birth Rate, Coitus, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, Pregnancy, Pregnancy in Adolescence, Sex Education, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Global Health, Adolescent Health Services, Condoms, Reproductive Medicine
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