title: Healthy youth development: getting our priorities right.
abstract: Promotion of healthy youth development is a worldwide priority that cannot be achieved by parents and families alone. Health professionals must use and advocate for evidence-based strategies that enhance key protective factors in the lives of young people. The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals create an unprecedented opportunity to partner with professional and youth-led organisations to ensure young people in the most vulnerable settings benefit from this initiative to reduce extreme poverty and threats to health and wellbeing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Universtiy of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States. resni001@umn.edu
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Resnick
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011050:Policy Making; D012922:Social Change