{"id":9858,"date":"2025-11-04T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:23:10","slug":"special-issue-child-and-adolescent-health-in-europe-and-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/special-issue-child-and-adolescent-health-in-europe-and-central-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Special issue: Child and Adolescent Health in Europe and Central Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A special scientific issue by Public Health in Practice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/special-issue\/10T4RDRF2XR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available on ScienceDirect<\/a>, brings together key articles that support the new Child and Adolescent Health (CAH) strategy in the WHO European Region by providing analysis, evidence and concrete recommendations for its implementation. The recently adopted strategy \u2018<em><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/items\/b2d1155d-b104-4b47-b20b-bcd959ea3e25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A healthy start for a healthy life: a strategy for child and adolescent health and well-being in the WHO European Region 2026\u20132030<\/a><\/em>\u2019 is the result of extensive consultation with governments, experts, civil society and young people themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNESCO Chair Global Health &amp; Education actively contributed to providing the evidence base for the CAH strategy through the article \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666535225000734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School is more than a place to learn: An intersectoral assessment of adolescent well-being prior to and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region<\/a><a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><em>\u2019<\/em>, which sheds light on the challenges of adolescent well-being, the impact of the pandemic and the importance of an intersectoral approach to schooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other articles included in the special issue are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666535225000084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leveraging evidence to tackle high-priority concerns in child and adolescent health across Europe and Central Asia<\/a> (Editorial)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666535225000874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Child and adolescent mortality in the WHO European Region: Concerning trends requiring urgent action<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666535225000746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The changing epidemiology of child and adolescent mental health requires an immediate policy response<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666535225000722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital screen exposure in infants, children and adolescents: a systematic review of existing recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666535225000606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Upholding the right to health of forcibly displaced children in Europe<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666535225000564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity: A call to strengthen upstream policy measures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> M. Limburg, M. Cronin, M. Black, J.C. Inchley, D. Jourdan, C. Jung-Sievers, P. McHale, E. Rehfuess, M.-C. Tsai, N.J. Gray. School is more than a place to learn: An intersectoral assessment of adolescent well-being prior to and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region. Public Health in Practice, Volume 10, 2025, 100654. ISSN 2666-5352. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.puhip.2025.100654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.puhip.2025.100654<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special scientific issue by Public Health in Practice, available on ScienceDirect, brings together key articles that support the new Child and Adolescent Health (CAH) strategy in the WHO European &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1115,"featured_media":9859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,31,12,17,35],"class_list":["post-9858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-health","tag-health-promotion","tag-school","tag-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9862,"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions\/9862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}