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

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

Department

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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