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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Famous quotes containing the words young people, key, health, services, young and/or people:
“The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“This is the Key of the Kingdom:
In that Kingdom is a city;”
—Unknown. This Is the Key (l. 1–2)
“Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“No young man ever thinks he shall die.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Old age equalizes—we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)