The Global Report shows important health challenges for young people

According to a global report, poor mental health, rising obesity rates, violence and climate change are among the most important challenges that today's young people look for each other.

The milestone report of experts in the health of young people, including Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), showed how the support of health and well -being of young people could improve economic, social and public health for the coming generations.

The 2025 Lancet Commission for Health and Well -being of young people has found that investments in the health and well -being of young people do not match the problems with which young people are faced with. The Commission brought together 44 commissioners and 10 youth officers and declared, while young people make up 24 percent of the population (around two billion people), they only receive 2.4 percent of global development and health financing.

By 2030, more than half of young people will live in countries in which their demographic population experiences an excessive burden on complex diseases.

The report showed that the continued challenges of this age group belonged:

• High cases of poor mental health and limited support services
• Increasing obesity rates due to complex environmental and commercial factors
• Lack of digital security and exposure to cyberbullying and misinformation
• Violence in conflict -related areas and experience within the house
• Ongoing effects of the Covid 19-pandemic and associated measures in public healthcare
• Enlargement of the gaps in the reproductive right, especially for young women
• Environmental challenges and climate change Effects

Published in The lancetThe report predicted that 70 percent of young people in the world will live in urban areas by 2050. While this may bring advantages, quick unplanned urbanization can also accelerate poverty, isolation and insecure housings.

The report stated that urban, public spaces should be more accessible and tailored to young people, such as:

Urgent measures were also necessary to better protect young people from violence and to ensure fair access to education and reproductive rights. Almost half of the young people have experienced violence and has a deep impact on their social and emotional development and well -being. While the global efforts have largely closed the gender-specific gap in high school formation by 2030, almost a third of young women will not be in post-secondary education, employment or training.

MCRI professor Peter Azzopardi said there was a great need for targeted measures that focused on early interventions.

Sensible, evidence-based, multi-sector partnerships with young people will be the key to improving health and well-being. However, we have to remain responsible by ensuring that progress is closely monitored and regularly reported. When our population ages and the fertility rates decrease, the health of our young people becomes even more crucible. “

Peter Azzopardi, MCri professor

Potential solutions and actions included:

• Change and reinforcement of the needs and votes young people
• Development of targeted approaches by the UN Secretary office with a focus on measurement and improving health and well-being of young people
• Inclusion of young people in community -based environmental programs
• Scaling of public health programs that improve the results of sexual and reproductive health and reduce gender -specific violence
• Strengthening measures in the field of health and education sectors and strengthening the cooperation
• Limitation of combating advertising to young people restrict
• Promotion and promotion of healthy use of social media and online rooms

MCRI professor Susan Sawyer said that partnerships with young people were a cornerstone of the report, who aimed to attribute their skills and leadership to shape the world in which they wanted to live.

“This report represents an abundance of current information about the condition of our young people's health,” she said. The results are alarming and require urgent measures and accountability in cooperation with young people in order to create safer rooms and sensible changes. “

However, Professor Sawyer said that the lack of national leadership in relation to the health of young people was a major obstacle to coping with the challenges.

“A common myth is that young people are healthy and therefore do not need health services,” she said. However, our results show that young people in every country need access to reaction -fast health services that can confident and react to their aspiring health needs. ”

The report will be started at the World Health Organization 78^TH Health meeting in Geneva.