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In the context of the rapidly advancing population ageing, the region of Latin America and the Caribbean is currently facing an unprecedented challenge of adapting to the transformed - yet, still evolving - age structure of the population. The paper provides a regional synthesis of the National...
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report -- Laying the groundwork -- Motivations for focusing on at-risk youth -- The youth cohort, particularly those … considered at-risk, is growing -- The costs of not investing in at-risk youth is very high for young people, their families, and … from the conceptual framework to policy -- Identifying at-risk youth for better programming and targeting -- A …
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This paper uses data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey to investigate the prevalence of health risk behaviors, in particular substance use, risky sexual behavior, and violence among adolescents in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Using logit regressions and...
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-school programs for preventing school-age youth violence in vulnerable settings in Latin American and the Caribbean. These programs …-school interventions to prevent youth violence have been conducted in developed countries, with far fewer in Latin America. In this review … were identified. Reported results indicate at least some benefits for youth behavior, although not across all youth …
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