Increasing Data and Understanding of Adolescent Mental Health Worldwide: UNICEF's Measurement of Mental Health Among Adolescents at the Population Level Initiative

Authors

• Liliana Carvajal-Velez, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, New York, New York; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: lcarvajal@unicef.org.
• Jennifer Harris Requejo, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, New York, New York.
• Jill W. Ahs, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; The Swedish Red Cross University College, Huddinge, Sweden.
• Priscilla Idele, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, Florence, Italy.
• Abiodun Adewuya, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria.
• Claudia Cappa, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, New York, New York.
• Regina Guthold, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Chisina Kapungu, WomenStrong International, Washington, District of Columbia.
• Christian Kieling, Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• Vikram Patel, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Sangath, Goa, India.
• George Patton, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• James G. Scott, Child and Youth Mental Health Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Chiara Servili, Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Danuta Wasserman, National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Brandon A. Kohrt, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Journal

The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine

Volume

72

Issue

1S

DOI

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.03.019

APA Citation

Carvajal-Velez, Liliana; Harris Requejo, Jennifer; Ahs, Jill W.; Idele, Priscilla; Adewuya, Abiodun; Cappa, Claudia; Guthold, Regina; Kapungu, Chisina; Kieling, Christian; Patel, Vikram; Patton, George; Scott, James G.; Servili, Chiara; Wasserman, Danuta; and Kohrt, Brandon A., "Increasing Data and Understanding of Adolescent Mental Health Worldwide: UNICEF's Measurement of Mental Health Among Adolescents at the Population Level Initiative" (2023). GW Authored Works. Paper 2339.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/gwhpubs/2339

Department

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences