Abstract
Adolescent health in Jamaica and the wider English-speaking Caribbean has over the past three decades advanced in achieving improved healthcare services for adolescents. The path taken to achieve success thus far is reviewed – including a historical perspective on the services offered, revision of the relevant policy and legislation frameworks, improved service delivery through education and training of relevant stakeholders and providers, improved youth participation, and sustained involvement of advocates.
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to acknowledge the adolescent advocates and mentors they have worked with, both in governmental and nongovernmental organizations, who have contributed to the progress in adolescent health and medicine in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorials
- Adolescent health and medicine: a global perspective on training adolescent health professionals
- Adolescent medicine and health: a good investment
- Reviews
- The status of adolescent medicine: building a global adolescent workforce
- Accreditation of Adolescent Medicine as a pediatric sub-specialty: the Canadian experience and lessons learned
- Adolescent and young adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand: towards specialist accreditation
- The foundations of interdisciplinary fellowship training in adolescent medicine in the United States
- A different training model for adolescent medicine: a PhD program in Turkey, where adolescent medicine is not currently a sub-specialty at this stage
- LEAH interdisciplinary training program
- The globalization of training in adolescent health and medicine: one size does not fit all
- Opportunities and challenges in adolescent health training abroad: trainees’ experience and perspective
- Training international medical graduate clinical fellows: the challenges and opportunities for adolescent medicine programs
- Adolescent health in South America
- Adolescent health care education and training: insights from Israel
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Singapore
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Thailand
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from India
- Adolescent health in the Caribbean region: insights from the Jamaican experience
- The health of Swiss adolescents and its implications for training of health professionals in Switzerland
- The role of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine in training of health professionals
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorials
- Adolescent health and medicine: a global perspective on training adolescent health professionals
- Adolescent medicine and health: a good investment
- Reviews
- The status of adolescent medicine: building a global adolescent workforce
- Accreditation of Adolescent Medicine as a pediatric sub-specialty: the Canadian experience and lessons learned
- Adolescent and young adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand: towards specialist accreditation
- The foundations of interdisciplinary fellowship training in adolescent medicine in the United States
- A different training model for adolescent medicine: a PhD program in Turkey, where adolescent medicine is not currently a sub-specialty at this stage
- LEAH interdisciplinary training program
- The globalization of training in adolescent health and medicine: one size does not fit all
- Opportunities and challenges in adolescent health training abroad: trainees’ experience and perspective
- Training international medical graduate clinical fellows: the challenges and opportunities for adolescent medicine programs
- Adolescent health in South America
- Adolescent health care education and training: insights from Israel
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Singapore
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Thailand
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from India
- Adolescent health in the Caribbean region: insights from the Jamaican experience
- The health of Swiss adolescents and its implications for training of health professionals in Switzerland
- The role of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine in training of health professionals