Children's Health Topics

Adolescent Health

The Canadian Paediatric Society works to ensure that health professionals, parents and others who care for adolescents have access to timely and credible resources on adolescent health.  

Resources for health care professionals

• Greig Health Record: An evidence-based health promotion guide for clinicians caring for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years.
• Position statements from the CPS Adolescent Health Committee
  
• Position statements from the CPS Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee relating to adolescent health including HPV vaccine.
  
• Position statements from the CPS Injury Prevention Committee on topics such as ATVs, snowmobiles and trampolines.
  
• The Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program has undertaken several studies related to adolescent health, such as bulimic eating disorders and Non-type 1 diabetes mellitus in Canadian children.

Patient education: Resources for parents, caregivers and teens

• HPV vaccine : A bilingual brochure for provides parents and teens.
  
• Our Caring for Kids website has several printable fact sheets for parents and teens on topics such as: injury prevention, adolescent vaccines and other teen health issues such as sleep, vegetarian diets, and sexual orientation.

  Advocacy

• Are We Doing Enough? The CPS status report on public policy and child and youth health rates how governments are doing in areas such as injury prevention, youth mental health, and smoking prevention.

Posted: April 2011