Nearly half a billion teenager worldwide will live with obesity or weight gain and millions of billion due to the risk of developing health prevention by 2030, according to an international report.
Although teenage deaths have decreased by more than a quarter over the past two decades, according to the comprehensive analysis of global data that within five years, at least half of the children between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world will live in countries where health problems that can be prevented such as HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy, depression, nutrition detection, nutrition, and nutrition, can live in countries where health problems that can be prevented such as HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy, depression, nutrition detection, nutrition, and nutrition detection, and nutrition detection, and nutrition detection, detection, nutrition, and nutrition detection, nutrition, and nutrition detection, nutrition, and nutrition, “A daily threat, health and life opportunity.” The authors warned of the health of young people to the “turning point”.
By 2030, 464 million young men will live with obesity or weight gain, an increase of 143 million from 2015, Lancet Committee on the health of teenagers and luxury Expectations.
The excess weight burden has already felt inappropriately in high -income countries; Latin America and the Caribbean Sea region; North Africa and the Middle East, where more than a third of children between the ages of 10 and 24 live with weight gain or obesity.
The report also found a “significant decrease” in the mental health of young people, and said that the climate crisis constituted “major new threats” to their health.
The authors pointed out that “today’s teenagers are the first group of people who will live throughout their lives and suffer from the increased resonance of climate change.” The review calculated that by 2100, 1.9 billion teenagers will live with the effects of global heating, which bring “catastrophic risks” to their well -being, such as heat -related disease, food insecurity and water.
The areas where the progress of some progress of materials were made, with a percentage of 10 to 24 years of age smoking or drinking alcohol in each region. The report found that the number of young people in education, work or training has decreased. However, “progress was undermined by the Covid-19s and a chronic financing shortage,” the authors pointed out.
“The health and welfare of adolescents all over the world is at a turning point … investing in the health and welfare of youth is crucial to protect our collective future,” said Professor Sarah Bird, from George Washington University in the United States and co -chairman.
The report concluded: “Without political will, political initiatives and financial investment … large numbers of teenagers will grow with poor health.”
Dr. Esho Pannerji, Director of Motherhood, Childbirth, Children and Adolescents in the world health The organization said: “The advancement of youth and rights of youth is the basis of a better future for all of us. From ending the marriage of children to addressing the mental health and obesity crisis, we must face old and emerging threats to their health,” the organization said.
“Every young man deserves access to basic health services and information – without stigma or discrimination. With a violent decline against gender equality, harmful commercial effects spread, defending youth health and their rights is more urgent than ever.
Johanna Raleston, the world’s CEO obesity Al -Ittihad said: “This committee clarifies what many of us have warned for a long time: the health of adolescents in the world is undermined through the failure of the diet and health systems.
“The rise in obesity and relevant diseases is not just the issue of individual options-it is the result of the environments that are overwhelmed by health harmful products, including super treatment foods, as well as policies that fail to protect young people.
“Governments must act urgently to create healthier health and health health systems and give teenage welfare priorities in national health strategies.”
