Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction
7. Background to Health Policy-making 3
8. Principled Policy-making: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 13
9. Evidence-based Policy-making: Adolescent Health Research 21
10. Key Examples of Adolescent Health Research and Policy
11. Socio-economic Status and the Health and Well-being of Youths in Canada 35
12. Health Promotion through School Improvement 67
13. The Health and Well-being of Aboriginal Youths in Canada 94
14. Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Adolescence: Policy Implications of Early Age of Sexual Debut 126
15. Substance Use: Harm Reduction and the Rights of the Canadian Adolescent 152
16. Responding to Bullying and Harassment: An Issue of Rights 173
17. Injury and Youth: Scope of the Injury Problem and Implications for Policy 197
18. Policy Problems, Analysis, and Recommendations
19. Improvements to the Policy Process to Increase Use of Evidence: Research Translation Examined 223
20. Improvements to Research to Benefit Policy 240
21. Application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Adolescent Health Policy 249
22. Recommendations for Developing Adolescent Health Policy 277
23. Index 287