Mental health
Poor mental health can affect all aspects of young people’s lives, from educational attainment and employment opportunities to relationships and physical health. These resources promote evidence and data as well as young people’s voices to highlight how important it is to improve mental health support for young people.
Learning from the experts
Young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing
needs following sexual abuse in adolescence
Closing the employment gap
Toolkit for those supporting the employment of 16–25 year olds
experiencing mental health problems.
Rethinking support
Rethinking support
for the parents and carers of young
people with mental health
problems
GCSE attainment
How does poor mental health in the early years of secondary school impact on GCSE attainment?
Participation in sport
Scoping review of the connections between young people’s mental health and sport participation
Data shows emerging evidence of increasing gender differences in drinking, smoking and vaping
Kirsty Blenkins AYPH’s new Evidence and Policy Lead reflects on new substance use data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study.HBSC is a school-based survey carried out every...
Improving measurement of adolescent health
The launch of the World Health Organisation’s new Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) indicatorsIn May 2024 a set of indicators to improve adolescent health measurement...
The health and wellbeing of young people in low income areas in England and Wales
Keeping track of key health trends and policy developments is central to AYPH’s work. In our latest update we took a new look at the health of young people in low income areas in England and Wales,...
Engaging young people in NHS service delivery and development
Everyone is agreed that young people need to be involved at all levels of our healthcare system, from shaping the care they are receiving at the front line right up to co-designing and inputting to...
Understanding the experiences of young people with epilepsy from communities that experience marginalisation
Epilepsy is one of the most common significant long-term neurological conditions of childhood and one of the five clinical areas of focus in the NHS England ‘Core20PLUS5’ approach to reducing health...
Understanding health inequalities for young people who are care experienced
As part of AYPH’s health inequalities programme we have focused on the health inequalities for different groups of young people. We are very pleased to present the findings from our exploration of...
Pulling together the main messages from key data on young people’s health in the UK
As part of our work to make the evidence base on youth health as accessible as possible, the AYPH research team has published a new article on the main UK population level data compendia that...
Ethnicity and young people’s health inequalities
In this blog post, Rachael McKeown explores the evidence on the health inequalities experienced by young people from ethnic minority backgrounds. New AYPH reports present the latest available data...
What does research say about young people’s health inequalities?
Addressing health inequalities is a key issue for decision makers and professionals working with young people. But how much is actually understood about young people’s health inequalities and are...
Young people’s views on digital ways of accessing primary care
Interest is growing in on-line methods for making contact with the GP. It’s critical we understand how this works specifically for young people. AYPH’s Jeremy Sachs shares the main findings from...