TY - BOOK ED - WHO Study Group on Young People and 'Health for All by the Year 2000'. ED - World Health Organization. TI - Young people's health - a challenge for society: report of a WHO Study Group on Young People and "Health for All by the Year 2000" [meeting held in Geneva from 4 to 8 June 1984] SN - 9241207310 PY - 1986/// CY - Geneva PB - World Health Organization KW - Adolescent medicine KW - Health planning KW - Health services research N1 - Russian version of nos. 728-749 bound together (barcode no. 00073792) N2 - Examines the health and health-related problems of adolescence in the context of current and emerging socioeconomic circumstances. Broad in scope, the report also reviews a wide variety of studies and findings that can support efforts to use young people as a resource for the promotion of health. Rooted in a thorough assessment of the world literature, the book considers topics ranging from the health implications of risk-taking behaviour, through changes in adolescent suicide rates, to a summary of current laws and policies governing the availability of contraceptives in different countries and the legal status of abortion. Readers are also given a thorough explanation of the physical and psychological changes that accompany the transition to adult-hood and often give rise to particular emotional stress UR - http://apps.who.int/iris/ UR - http://apps.who.int/iris/ UR - http://apps.who.int/iris/ ER -