Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023.

ABORTION laws; VIOLENCE prevention; WELL-being; TRANSITION to adulthood; DATING violence; ADOLESCENT health; CHILDREN'S accident prevention; GENDER; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; HEALTH promotion

The article calls for the protection and promotion of adolescent health and well-being. Topics discussed are prevention of dating and relationship violence among adolescents and young adults, access to safe abortion care for adolescents, and the need for family-, community- and structural level of interventions to bolster the impact of school-based interventions to address dating and relationship violence.