adolescent health
Our researchers were involved in a world first study reporting
on the rates and causes of death in young people across 192
countries. In collaboration with the World Health Organization, the
study found death from injury including traffic accidents, violence
and suicide accounted for two in five youth deaths worldwide. It
also found young people from developed countries including
Australia were three times more likely to die in their late teens
and early twenties than in earlier childhood. The findings aim to
improve adolescent health policies both in Australia and
globally.