Young People’s Voices
We have developed resources with young people on a number of topics using participatory and creative methods. We are experts in delivering safe, meaningful participation work with young people who have experienced violence and trauma and those who face health inequalities. If you are interested in learning more about our methods, check out our resources about engaging with young people.
LGBTQ+ Young People
Perspectives on principles statement for LGBTQ+ care.
Newham ‘We Are Food Secure 11-19 project’
Including key messages from young people.
Climate change Inquiry
Report and poster/board game from youth-led Inquiry into climate change and youth health.
Complications from excess weight
Messages from engagement and recommendations for practice for complications from excess weight clinics.
Ethnicity & health inequalities
Themes from engagement on the importance of ethnicity for understanding young people’s experiences of health inequalities
Care leavers engagement report
Themes from engagement
with a youth panel on care leavers’ experiences of health inequalities
Epilepsy engagement report
Themes from engagement work with children, young people and families more likely to experience marginalisation about their experiences of managing their epilepsy care.
Diabetes engagement report
Themes from engagement work with children, young people and families more likely to experience marginalisation about their experiences of managing their Type 1 diabetes care.
Asthma engagement report
Themes from engagement with young people and families about asthma management and care.
Are you OK?
Report from sci-fi animation project with young people from CHIVA creating an ideal world for young people living with HIV.
Young people’s report
Accessible report from youth led research into the lives of young people in Kensington and Chelsea
Acute Care
Participation project with young people to define the best acute care services
Understanding our population data
We’ve updated our population data page ready for International Adolescent Health Week. As the most read page of the Youth Health Data Hub, we know that understanding how many young people are in the...
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...