Why it benefits adolescents in the post-pandemic survey of specialists

“United for COVID-19 teenagers and more”. With a title that appears to paraphrase the iconic phrase of one of the characters of the Pixar saga Toy story “Hasta el infinito y más ala alla”, a group of experts among those who meet the Alliance for Health Materna, Neonatal and Infantil, the World Health Organization (OMS), the United Nations, youth leadership organizations and government representatives African, American, Asian and European countries demonstrate their concern for the future of adolescents in the post-pandemic.

In an open map published by The BMJ, los líderes would advise that 1,200 million people from 10 to 19 years old all over the world “run the risk of heredar a world ruined by the climatic and market change by the COVID-19”.

Yes, if this French etaria were to find a “salvo” of the most serious direct effects of the disease, the carta would support the indirect consequences of its “devastation”.

Including the antidote to the pandemic by COVID-19, young adolescents and adults enfrentaban “many challenges for their well-being, including social justice and inequalities, an inadequate mental health and a crisis of connection with the family, the community and the society, with a number that is mayor of persons who live in the calls or abandon the school ”.

‘When adolescents pass the age of adulthood, many take the example or the unstable job, and in many countries the hope is that the children will take care of the burden of care not paid in high school -señalaron los líderes mundiales-. In 2017, 34% of young women and 10% of young men between 15 and 24 years of age had no employment, education or capacity, with more pronounced disparities in northern Africa and South Asia ”.

Including young adolescents and adults who are employed, a proportion each mayor has a deficient labor security, variable weekly increments, and a minimum health or zero health security increase. “These are examples that, as a global community, have not been sufficiently attentive to the multidimensional and intersectional nature of adolescent well-being and the importance of the transition to adulthood,” he said.

At the same time, “Disability assistance for the health of adolescents represents only 1.6% of the total assistance for health care between 2003 and 2015, except for one third of the total burden of morbidity that is estimated. has its roots in adolescence ”.

The leaflets pidieron in its motive “a new definition agreed and a conceptual brand for the benefit of adolescents to inform the wording of policies”. This, for them, should include a good health and optimal nutrition; connectivity, positive values ​​and contribution to society; security and an entorno proposition; learning, competence, education, skills and employability; and agency and resilience.

“We invite all (decision makers, politicians, civil society, service providers, educators, donors, innovators and those who are most important, adolescent proposals) to support this call to action -synthesize-. We can ensure that results in concrete policies, integrated programs and sustained investments for the benefit of adolescents”.

And the finalist is called “A global change for the benefit of young people in 2023” as “a clave recommended by the lame to the action”. “The room will provide a powerful platform to stimulate our collective efforts for a transformative, multifaceted and multisectoral approach to the welfare of adolescents, with an emphasis on the financing of finances, the policies. The number has as an objective contribution to the fact that high adolescents are empowered to solve the problems that are inherited, ”he concluded.

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