New Global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents developed by WHO and UNAIDS aim to help countries improve the quality of adolescent health care.
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现有的卫生服务往往不能满足世界青少年(10-19岁)的需要。
Existing health services often fail the world’s adolescents (10-19-year-olds).
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许多遭遇精神疾患、物质滥用、营养不良、故意伤害和慢性疾病问题的青少年无法获得关键的预防和关爱服务。
Many adolescents who suffer from mental health disorders, substance use, poor nutrition, intentional injuries and chronic illness do not have access to critical prevention and care services.
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而与此同时,许多具有终生健康影响的行为始于青少年时期。
Meanwhile, many behaviours that have a lifelong impact on health begin in adolescence.
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“这些标准提供了简单可行的步骤,无论穷国还是富国都可立即实施以增进其青少年的健康与福祉。
“These standards provide simple yet powerful steps that countries – both rich and poor – can immediately take to improve the health and wellbeing of their adolescents, reflecting the stronger focus on adolescents in the new Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health that was launched in New York in September,” says Dr Anthony Costello, Director of Maternal, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health at WHO.