Investing in Young People's Health
This session explains why adolescent health is so important both globally and nationally, and the potential benefits of investing resources in ensuring that young people have the best possible start in life. It also describes the broad range of factors that can influence adolescent health and the need to take an holistic approach to investment.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Explain why investing in young people is beneficial to the whole population
- Estimate the size of the adolescent population in the UK
- Understand the range of factors that influence adolescent health
- Describe the main causes of mortality and morbidity in young people
- Describe how health behaviours in adolescence influence long term health outcomes
- Describe the impact of adolescent health on future generations
- Indicate the levels at which investment in adolescent health may be of benefit
Introduction
There are approximately 1.8 billion people aged 10-24 in the world. This constitutes 25% of the global population.
90% live in low and middle income countries.
Russell Viner is currently President of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH), the leading voice for children and young people’s health in the UK. He is also Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London, a paediatrician who sees young people with diabetes each week at University College Hospital and he directs the Department of Health Obesity Policy Research Unit.
Russell has a long history of leadership in national health policy, from involvement in the 2005 National Service Framework to helping ensure children and young people were central to the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan. He is currently Vice-Chair of the NHS England Children and Young People’s Transformation Board, responsible for strategic oversight of children’s health in England, and Chair of the Stakeholder Council for the Children’s Transformation Board. He also has significant ‘hands-on’ experience within the NHS, having been Clinical Director in a busy teaching hospital and clinical director for children and young people for the NHS across London, responsible for leading healthcare strategy for London’s 2 million children and young people.
Russell Viner was one of the founders of Adolescent Health in the UK. He set up the first Adolescent Medicine service in the UK and went on to become the UK's first professor of Adolescent Health, helping lead a new focus on adolescent healthcare in the UK and Europe. He was a founder of the UK Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH) and now serves as Patron. He has been Vice-President of the International Association for Adolescent Health. He has acted as an advisor on adolescent health and obesity for the Departments of Health and for Education in England and for the World Health Organisation and Unicef internationally. He is an Executive Committee member for the International Paediatric Association and will be President of the 2021 International Paediatric Congress.
His research focuses on population health, policy and health services for children and young people. Academically, he has published over 200 peer reviewed papers and is currently named on >£20 million in current research grants.
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