Critical life course interventions for children and adolescents to promote mental health

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Programme Group, Health Section, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁶ Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷ citiesRISE, New York, NY, USA.
⁸ Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Review

Christina A Laurenzi et al. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2022.

. 2022 Dec 7:10:e4.

doi: 10.1017/gmh.2022.58. eCollection 2023.

¹ Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Programme Group, Health Section, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁶ Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷ citiesRISE, New York, NY, USA.
⁸ Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Abstract

Keywords: child development; child mental health; global mental health; mental well-being.

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