This guidance document offers a strategic framework and processes to strengthen competency-based pre- and in-service training on adolescent health for health-care providers, as a contribution to achieving universal health coverage for all adolescents and youth in the region.
It proposes three priority areas and two crosscutting themes. The priority areas include:
• Supporting leadership, management and accountability;
• Developing consensus about the content and strategies for strengthening the adolescent health components of pre- and in-service training;
• Increasing the quality and coverage of adolescent health in existing pre- and in-service training programmes.
The cross-cutting issues are monitoring and evaluation, and the meaningful involvement of adolescents and youth.
