Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : A Review of the Global Evidence

Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. Youth face many choices and challenges around these key...

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Main Authors:	Moucheraud, Corrina, Hasan, Rifat
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	ADOLESCENT DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND EARLY MARRIAGE FERTILITY GIRLS EDUCATION SCHOOL SKILLS TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24573

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spelling	okr-10986-245732021-05-25T08:48:59Z Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : A Review of the Global Evidence Moucheraud, Corrina Hasan, Rifat ADOLESCENT DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND EARLY MARRIAGE FERTILITY GIRLS EDUCATION SCHOOL SKILLS TEENAGE PREGNANCY Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. Youth face many choices and challenges around these key decisions, such as when to initiate sex, when to marry, when to have children, and whether to engage in risky behaviors – all of which affect their future health and future opportunities. Consequences of these early decisions can have long-lasting effects on adolescents and their communities, potentially increasing public health costs and depleting human capital. This note briefly presents program and policy approaches that have been implemented in different contexts for addressing these two key transition periods of youth: beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. It concludes by presenting a set of programmatic lessons and investment recommendations based on the global evidence. 2016-06-21T19:01:20Z 2016-06-21T19:01:20Z 2016-05 Brief http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24573 English en_US Policy Brief: Malawi; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Ethiopia Ghana Malawi
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description	Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. Youth face many choices and challenges around these key decisions, such as when to initiate sex, when to marry, when to have children, and whether to engage in risky behaviors – all of which affect their future health and future opportunities. Consequences of these early decisions can have long-lasting effects on adolescents and their communities, potentially increasing public health costs and depleting human capital. This note briefly presents program and policy approaches that have been implemented in different contexts for addressing these two key transition periods of youth: beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. It concludes by presenting a set of programmatic lessons and investment recommendations based on the global evidence.
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author	Moucheraud, Corrina Hasan, Rifat
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title	Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : A Review of the Global Evidence
title_short	Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : A Review of the Global Evidence
title_full	Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : A Review of the Global Evidence
title_fullStr	Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : A Review of the Global Evidence
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Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : A Review of the Global Evidence

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