Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

George C. Patton; Susan M. Sawyer; John S. Santelli; David A. Ross; Rima Afifi; Nicholas B. Allen; Monika Arora; Peter Azzopardi; Wendy Baldwin; Christopher Bonell; Ritsuko Kakuma; Elissa Kennedy; Jaqueline Mahon; Terry McGovern; Ali H. Mokdad; Vikram Patel; Suzanne Petroni; Nicola Reavley; Kikelomo Taiwo; Jane Waldfogel; Dakshitha Wickremarathne; Carmen Barroso; Zulfiqar Bhutta; Adesegun O. Fatusi; Amitabh Mattoo; Judith Diers; Jing Fang; Jane Ferguson; Frederick Ssewamala; Russell M. Viner

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00579-1

Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

George C. Patton, Susan M. Sawyer, John S. Santelli, David A. Ross, Rima Afifi, Nicholas B. Allen, Monika Arora, Peter Azzopardi, Wendy Baldwin, Christopher Bonell, Ritsuko Kakuma, Elissa Kennedy, Jaqueline Mahon, Terry McGovern, Ali H. Mokdad, Vikram Patel, Suzanne Petroni, Nicola Reavley, Kikelomo Taiwo, Jane WaldfogelDakshitha Wickremarathne, Carmen Barroso, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Adesegun O. Fatusi, Amitabh Mattoo, Judith Diers, Jing Fang, Jane Ferguson, Frederick Ssewamala, Russell M. Viner

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2423-2478
Number of pages	56
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	387
Issue number	10036
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00579-1
Publication status	Published - 11 Jun 2016

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Patton, G. C., Sawyer, S. M., Santelli, J. S., Ross, D. A., Afifi, R., Allen, N. B., Arora, M., Azzopardi, P., Baldwin, W., Bonell, C., Kakuma, R., Kennedy, E., Mahon, J., McGovern, T., Mokdad, A. H., Patel, V., Petroni, S., Reavley, N., Taiwo, K., ... Viner, R. M. (2016). Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. The Lancet, 387(10036), 2423-2478. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00579-1

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