{"id":214414,"date":"2025-05-21T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/adolescent-health-is-at-a-tipping-point-global-analysis-suggests"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:04:22","slug":"adolescent-health-is-at-a-tipping-point-global-analysis-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/adolescent-health-is-at-a-tipping-point-global-analysis-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Adolescent health is at a tipping point, global analysis suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adolescent-health-is-at-a-tipping-point-global-analysis-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By 2030, there will still be over 1 billion of the world\u2019s adolescents (aged 10\u201324 years) living in countries where preventable and treatable health problems like HIV\/AIDS, early pregnancy, unsafe sex, depression, poor nutrition and injury collectively threaten the health and well-being of adolescents, suggests a new analysis from the second <i>Lancet<\/i> Commission on adolescent health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Commission co-chair, Professor Sarah Baird, George Washington University (U.S.) says, The health and well-being of adolescents worldwide is at a tipping point, with mixed progress observed over the past three decades.<\/p>\n<p>While tobacco and alcohol use has declined and participation in secondary and tertiary education has increased, overweight and obesity have risen by up to eight-fold in some countries in Africa and Asia over the past three decades, and there is a growing burden of poor adolescent mental health globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2030, there will still be over 1 billion of the world\u2019s adolescents (aged 10\u201324 years) living in countries where preventable and treatable health problems like HIV\/AIDS, early pregnancy, unsafe sex, depression, poor nutrition and injury collectively threaten the health and well-being of adolescents, suggests a new analysis from the second Lancet Commission on adolescent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1495,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}