Health & Education
Aims:
The COVID‑19 pandemic amplified existing adolescent health vulnerabilities and revealed systemic gaps across health, education, and social services -particularly regarding mental wellbeing, access to digital resources and health literacy. These gaps demand a coordinated, youth-centred, multisectoral response that aligns policy, media, and community perceptions with adolescents’ lived experiences.
To capture the full landscape of youth health representations, emphasising the inclusiveness, social justice, and participatory approaches that elevate young people’s voices, in this project we seek to answer the following research questions:
- What conceptions of youth health are produced and disseminated by various global, national, regional, and local policies and practices in health, education and social work discourse? To what extent are those representations coherent with each other across levels and across domains?
- How are youth health-related issues conceptualised in traditional media outlets, social media, and GenAI?
- What perceptions and understanding of health-related issues are evident among various individual actors (e.g., teachers, parents, community members) and crucially among young individuals themselves across different socio-economic contexts? To what extent are the youth’s self-conceptualisations aligned with representations generated by other actors?
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