Adolescent health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Collaborators GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Adolescent Health Collaborators; Peter Azzopardi; Karly Cini; Elissa Kennedy; Susan Sawyer; Charbel El Bcheraoui; Raghid Charara; Ibrahim Khalil; Maziar Moradi-Lakeh; Michael Collison; Rima A. Afifi; Jamela Al-Raiby; Kristopher J. Krohn; Farah Daoud; Adrienne Chew; Ashkan Afshin; Kyle J. Foreman; Nicholas J. Kassebaum; Michael Kutz; Hmwe H. Kyu; Patrick Liu; Helen E. Olsen; Alison Smith; Jeffrey D. Stanaway; Haidong Wang; Johan Arnlov; Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri; Khurshid Alam; Deena Alasfoor; Raghib Ali; Reza Alizadeh-Navaei; Rajaa Al-Raddadi; Khalid A. Altirkawi; Nelson Alvis-Guzman; Nahla Anber; Carl Abelardo T. Antonio; Palwasha Anwari; Al Artaman; Hamid Asayesh; Suzanne L. Barker-Collo; Neeraj Bedi; Ettore Beghi; Derrick A. Bennett; Isabela M. Bensenor; Zulfiqar A. Bhutta; Zahid A. Butt; Carlos A. Castañeda-Orjuela; Ferran Catala-Lopez; Fiona J. Charlson; Hadi Danawi; Diego De Leo; Louisa Degenhardt; Donna Denno; Kebede Deribe; Don C. Des Jarlais; Subhojit Dey; Samath D. Dharmaratne; Shirin Djalalinia; Holly E. Erskine; Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad; Alize J. Ferrari; Florian Fischer; Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot; Johanna M. Geleijnse; Philimon N. Gona; Harish Chander Gugnani; Rajeev Gupta; Randah Ribhi Hamadeh; Samer Hamidi; Josep Maria Haro; Roderick J. Hay; Stephen J. C. Hearps; Delia Hendrie; Peter J. Hotez; Guoqing Hu; Jost B. Jonas; Andre Karch; Seyed M. Karimi; Amir Kasaeian; Seifu Kebede; Andre Pascal Kengne; Ejaz Ahmad Khan; Ardeshir Khosravi; Jagdish Khubchandani; Yoshihiro Kokubo; Jacek A. Kopec; Soewarta Kosen; Heidi J. Larson; Anders Larsson; Janet L. Leasher; Janni Leung; Yongmei Li; Paulo A. Lotufo; Raimundas Lunevicius; Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek; Reza Majdzadeh; Azeem Majeed; Peter Memiah; Ziad A. Memish; Walter Mendoza; Francis Apolinary Mhimbira; Ted R. Miller; Philip B. Mitchell; Lorenzo Monasta; Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer; In-Hwan Oh; Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya; Alberto Ortiz; Eun-Kee Park; Matti Parry; David M. Pereira; Michael Robert Phillips; Farshad Pourmalek; Amir Radfar; Anwar Rafay; Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar; Rajesh Kumar Rai; Saleem M. Rana; David Laith Rawaf; Salman Rawaf; Nicola Reavley; Andre M. N. Renzaho; Satar Rezaei; Mohammad Sadegh-Rezai; Diego Rios-Zertuche; Gholamreza Roshandel; Dietrich Rothenbacher; Mahdi Safdarian; Sare Safi; Saeid Safiri; Mohammad Ali Sahraian; Payman Salamati; Abdallah M. Samy; Juan Ramon Sanabria; Damian Santomauro; Benn Sartorius; David C. Schwebel; Soraya Seedat; Sadaf G. Sepanlou; Tesfaye Setegn; Amira Shaheen; Masood Ali Shaikh; Rahman Shiri; Inga Dora Sigfusdottir; Jasvinder A. Singh; Badr H. A. Sobaih; Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy; Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader; Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi; Mohamad-Hani Temsah; Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi; Alan J. Thomson; Marcello Tonelli; Roman Topor-Madry; Bach Xuan Tran; Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja; Olalekan A. Uthman; Tommi Vasankari; Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian; Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov; Stein Emil Vollset; Elisabete Weiderpass; Robert G. Weintraub; Andrea Werdecker; Harvey A. Whiteford; Yuichiro Yano; Mehdi Yaseri; Naohiro Yonemoto; Mustafa Z. Younis; Chuanhua Yu; Aisha O. Jumaan; Theo Vos; Simon I. Hay; Mohsen Naghavi; George C. Patton; Christopher J. L. Murray; Ali H. Mokdad

doi:10.1007/s00038-017-1003-4

Adolescent health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Collaborators GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Adolescent Health Collaborators, Peter Azzopardi, Karly Cini, Elissa Kennedy, Susan Sawyer, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Raghid Charara, Ibrahim Khalil, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Michael Collison, Rima A. Afifi, Jamela Al-Raiby, Kristopher J. Krohn, Farah Daoud, Adrienne Chew, Ashkan Afshin, Kyle J. Foreman, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Michael Kutz, Hmwe H. KyuPatrick Liu, Helen E. Olsen, Alison Smith, Jeffrey D. Stanaway, Haidong Wang, Johan Arnlov, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Khurshid Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Raghib Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Nahla Anber, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Palwasha Anwari, Al Artaman, Hamid Asayesh, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Neeraj Bedi, Ettore Beghi, Derrick A. Bennett, Isabela M. Bensenor, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Zahid A. Butt, Carlos A. Castañeda-Orjuela, Ferran Catala-Lopez, Fiona J. Charlson, Hadi Danawi, Diego De Leo, Louisa Degenhardt, Donna Denno, Kebede Deribe, Don C. Des Jarlais, Subhojit Dey, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Shirin Djalalinia, Holly E. Erskine, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Alize J. Ferrari, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Johanna M. Geleijnse, Philimon N. Gona, Harish Chander Gugnani, Rajeev Gupta, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Josep Maria Haro, Roderick J. Hay, Stephen J. C. Hearps, Delia Hendrie, Peter J. Hotez, Guoqing Hu, Jost B. Jonas, Andre Karch, Seyed M. Karimi, Amir Kasaeian, Seifu Kebede, Andre Pascal Kengne, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Ardeshir Khosravi, Jagdish Khubchandani, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Jacek A. Kopec, Soewarta Kosen, Heidi J. Larson, Anders Larsson, Janet L. Leasher, Janni Leung, Yongmei Li, Paulo A. Lotufo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Majdzadeh, Azeem Majeed, Peter Memiah, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Francis Apolinary Mhimbira, Ted R. Miller, Philip B. Mitchell, Lorenzo Monasta, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, In-Hwan Oh, Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya, Alberto Ortiz, Eun-Kee Park, Matti Parry, David M. Pereira, Michael Robert Phillips, Farshad Pourmalek, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Saleem M. Rana, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Nicola Reavley, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Sadegh-Rezai, Diego Rios-Zertuche, Gholamreza Roshandel, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Mahdi Safdarian, Sare Safi, Saeid Safiri, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Ramon Sanabria, Damian Santomauro, Benn Sartorius, David C. Schwebel, Soraya Seedat, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Tesfaye Setegn, Amira Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Rahman Shiri, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Jasvinder A. Singh, Badr H. A. Sobaih, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Alan J. Thomson, Marcello Tonelli, Roman Topor-Madry, Bach Xuan Tran, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Tommi Vasankari, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov, Stein Emil Vollset, Elisabete Weiderpass, Robert G. Weintraub, Andrea Werdecker, Harvey A. Whiteford, Yuichiro Yano, Mehdi Yaseri, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, George C. Patton, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

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Abstract

Objectives: The 22 countries of the East Mediterranean Region (EMR) have large populations of adolescents aged 10-24 years. These adolescents are central to assuring the health, development, and peace of this region. We described their health needs. Methods: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (GBD 2015), we report the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for adolescents in the EMR from 1990 to 2015. We also report the prevalence of key health risk behaviors and determinants. Results: Communicable diseases and the health consequences of natural disasters reduced substantially between 1990 and 2015. However, these gains have largely been offset by the health impacts of war and the emergence of non-communicable diseases (including mental health disorders), unintentional injury, and self-harm. Tobacco smoking and high body mass were common health risks amongst adolescents. Additionally, many EMR countries had high rates of adolescent pregnancy and unmet need for contraception. Conclusions: Even with the return of peace and security, adolescents will have a persisting poor health profile that will pose a barrier to socioeconomic growth and development of the EMR.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	79-96
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Public Health
Volume	63
Issue number	Supplement 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-1003-4
Publication status	Published - 2018

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GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Adolescent Health Collaborators, C., Azzopardi, P., Cini, K., Kennedy, E., Sawyer, S., El Bcheraoui, C., Charara, R., Khalil, I., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Collison, M., Afifi, R. A., Al-Raiby, J., Krohn, K. J., Daoud, F., Chew, A., Afshin, A., Foreman, K. J., Kassebaum, N. J., Kutz, M., ... Mokdad, A. H. (2018). Adolescent health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. International Journal of Public Health, 63(Supplement 1), 79-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-1003-4

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Adolescent health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. / GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Adolescent Health Collaborators, Collaborators; Azzopardi, Peter; Cini, Karly et al.
In: International Journal of Public Health, Vol. 63, No. Supplement 1, 2018, p. 79-96.

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AU - Yano, Yuichiro

AU - Yaseri, Mehdi

AU - Yonemoto, Naohiro

AU - Younis, Mustafa Z.

AU - Yu, Chuanhua

AU - Jumaan, Aisha O.

AU - Vos, Theo

AU - Hay, Simon I.

AU - Naghavi, Mohsen

AU - Patton, George C.

AU - Murray, Christopher J. L.

AU - Mokdad, Ali H.

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Objectives: The 22 countries of the East Mediterranean Region (EMR) have large populations of adolescents aged 10-24 years. These adolescents are central to assuring the health, development, and peace of this region. We described their health needs. Methods: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (GBD 2015), we report the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for adolescents in the EMR from 1990 to 2015. We also report the prevalence of key health risk behaviors and determinants. Results: Communicable diseases and the health consequences of natural disasters reduced substantially between 1990 and 2015. However, these gains have largely been offset by the health impacts of war and the emergence of non-communicable diseases (including mental health disorders), unintentional injury, and self-harm. Tobacco smoking and high body mass were common health risks amongst adolescents. Additionally, many EMR countries had high rates of adolescent pregnancy and unmet need for contraception. Conclusions: Even with the return of peace and security, adolescents will have a persisting poor health profile that will pose a barrier to socioeconomic growth and development of the EMR.

AB - Objectives: The 22 countries of the East Mediterranean Region (EMR) have large populations of adolescents aged 10-24 years. These adolescents are central to assuring the health, development, and peace of this region. We described their health needs. Methods: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (GBD 2015), we report the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for adolescents in the EMR from 1990 to 2015. We also report the prevalence of key health risk behaviors and determinants. Results: Communicable diseases and the health consequences of natural disasters reduced substantially between 1990 and 2015. However, these gains have largely been offset by the health impacts of war and the emergence of non-communicable diseases (including mental health disorders), unintentional injury, and self-harm. Tobacco smoking and high body mass were common health risks amongst adolescents. Additionally, many EMR countries had high rates of adolescent pregnancy and unmet need for contraception. Conclusions: Even with the return of peace and security, adolescents will have a persisting poor health profile that will pose a barrier to socioeconomic growth and development of the EMR.

KW - Middle East

KW - adolescence

KW - diseases

KW - health

KW - teenagers

UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:43192

U2 - 10.1007/s00038-017-1003-4

DO - 10.1007/s00038-017-1003-4

M3 - Article

C2 - 28776253

SN - 1661-8564

SN - 1661-8556

VL - 63

SP - 79

EP - 96

JO - International Journal of Public Health

JF - International Journal of Public Health

IS - Supplement 1

ER -

Adolescent health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

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