Facilitating health and wellbeing is "everybody's role": Youth perspectives from Vanuatu on health and the post-2015 sustainable development goal agenda

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sheridan, Simon A ^a   Brolan, Claire E ^a   Fitzgerald, Lisa ^a   Tasserei, John ^b   Maleb, Marie France ^c   Rory, Jean Jacques ^b   Hill, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Health Promotion Unit Public Health Department   (Vanuatu)

^c Sanma Provincial Health Office   (Vanuatu)

Author keywords

Health policy; Millennium development goals; Post 2015 agenda; Sustainable development goals; Vanuatu; Young people; Youth

Indexed keywords

AGENDA 21; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WELFARE REFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MALE; PROTECTION; RESPONSIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POPULATION; VANUATU; WELLBEING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; MOTIVATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; STANDARDS;

VANUATU;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOALS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MARGINALIZATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; VANUATU;

EID: 84908070404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-014-0080-8     Document Type: Article

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