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| Summary |
This Guidebook sets out the public health rationale for making it easier for adolescents
to obtain the health services that they need to protect and improve their health and wellbeing,
including sexual and reproductive health services. It defines adolescent-friendly
health services from the perspective of quality, and provides step-by-step guidance on
developing quality standards for health service provision to adolescents. Drawing upon
international experience, it is also tailored to national epidemiological, social, cultural and
economic realities, and provides guidance on identifying what actions need to be taken to
assess whether appropriate standards have been achieved.
The Guidebook is intended to be a companion to the Quality Assessment Guidebook: A
guide to assessing health services for adolescent clients, which was published by the
World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009. These two guidebooks are part of a set of
tools to standardize and scale up the coverage of quality health services to adolescents,
as described in another WHO publication: Strengthening the health sector s response to
adolescent health and development.
The current publication is intended for national public health programme managers, and
individuals in organizations supporting their work. Its focus is on managers working in the
government sector, but it will be equally relevant to those working in nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) and in the commercial sector.
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