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Revisiting child and adolescent health in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
Examining the global situation in child health more than 5 years into the trajectory towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, several concerns emerge – the field remains fragmented, with limited actions in countries to develop integrated strategies for reproductive, maternal, child and newborn health, or for inclusion of adolescent health within national plans. The gains in early child health painstakingly achieved since 2000 are at risk of slowing down and losing priority, and the world needs to redouble its efforts to do better. For this reason, PLOS Medicine is planning a Special Issue devoted to research and practice in the area of Global Child and Adolescent Health, to be published in 2021.
In this month’s Editorial, the Editors of the forthcoming Special Issue discuss the current and future prospects for young people’s health globally.
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Citation: (2020) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 17(10) November 2020. PLoS Med 17(10): ev17.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v17.i10
Published: November 19, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Examining the global situation in child health more than 5 years into the trajectory towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, several concerns emerge – the field remains fragmented, with limited actions in countries to develop integrated strategies for reproductive, maternal, child and newborn health, or for inclusion of adolescent health within national plans. The gains in early child health painstakingly achieved since 2000 are at risk of slowing down and losing priority, and the world needs to redouble its efforts to do better. For this reason, PLOS Medicine is planning a Special Issue devoted to research and practice in the area of Global Child and Adolescent Health, to be published in 2021.
In this month’s Editorial, the Editors of the forthcoming Special Issue discuss the current and future prospects for young people’s health globally.
Image Credit: Free-Photos, Pixabay (CC0)