Key Health Services For Young People
Youth Health includes adolescent medicine as a speciality, along with other primary and tertiary care services.
Key health services for young people:
- Adolescent medicine
- Child protection
- Drug and Alcohol services and Youth Drug courts
- General practitioners
- Justice Health
- Mental Health services
- Psychology
- School health services
- Sexual health services
- Social work
- Transition care
- Youth health nursing
- Youth health services and 'one-stop-shops' for young people
- Youth work and youth development services
- Web based supports such as Reach Out!
Capacity building organisations support the Youth Health sector by providing access to information and resources, conducting research and providing training.
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