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Adolescence: a foundation for future health

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New understandings of the diverse and dynamic effects on adolescent health include insights into the effects of puberty and brain development, together with social media, which provide important opportunities to improve health, both in adolescence and later in life.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2012-04-28. It has received 1780 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social determinants of health & Public health.

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Adolescence and the social determinants of health

TL;DR: Improving adolescent health worldwide requires improving young people's daily life with families and peers and in schools, addressing risk and protective factors in the social environment at a population level, and focusing on factors that are protective across various health outcomes.
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The age of adolescence

TL;DR: Adolescence is the phase of life stretching between childhood and adulthood, and its definition has long posed a conundrum as mentioned in this paper, and it encompasses elements of biological growth and major social role transitions, both of which have changed in the past century.
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Early developmental conditioning of later health and disease: physiology or pathophysiology?

TL;DR: The extent to which DOHaD represents the result of the physiological processes of developmental plasticity, which may have potential adverse consequences in terms of NCD risk later, or whether it is the manifestation of pathophysiological processes acting in early life but only becoming apparent as disease later?
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Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

TL;DR: Lifetime prevalence estimates are higher in recent cohorts than in earlier cohorts and have fairly stable intercohort differences across the life course that vary in substantively plausible ways among sociodemographic subgroups.
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Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030

TL;DR: These projections represent a set of three visions of the future for population health, based on certain explicit assumptions, which enable us to appreciate better the implications for health and health policy of currently observed trends, and the likely impact of fairly certain future trends.
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Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study.

TL;DR: This large-scale longitudinal pediatric neuroimaging study confirmed linear increases in white matter, but demonstrated nonlinear changes in cortical gray matter, with a preadolescent increase followed by a postadolescent decrease.
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Protecting adolescents from harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health.

TL;DR: Family and school contexts as well as individual characteristics are associated with health and risky behaviors in adolescents, and the results should assist health and social service providers, educators, and others in taking the first steps to diminish risk factors and enhance protective factors for young people.
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Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease

TL;DR: Substantial proportions of global disease burden are attributable to these major risks, to an extent greater than previously estimated.
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