Resources

Here are some of the resources that AYPH has produced. They include toolkits to support practice, data and information, results of participation with young people, briefings, blogs and other resources.  You’re welcome to download and use or circulate them, but please give us a credit.

Toolkits

Closing the employment gap for young people: A toolkit for those supporting 16-25 year olds experiencing common mental health problems to gain and stay in work. (May 2019)

Addressing health inequalities in homeless children, young people and families: A toolkit for Public Health Nurses (November 2018)

Developmentally appropriate healthcare toolkit (November 2017)

School Nurse Toolkit – Improving young people’s health literacy (November 2016)

A public health approach to promoting young people’s resilience (March 2016)

GP Champions Toolkit for Primary Care (November 2015)

Data and infographics 

Overlap between mental health problems and employment issues for young people aged 16-24 – A scoping review. (March 2019)

Briefing on mental health prevalence findings for 10-19 year olds. (January 2019)

Health protection and immunisations for young people (March 2018)

Ten reasons to invest in young people’s health (April 2017)

Ten reasons to invest in young people’s health – references (April 2017)

Which young people need extra help to reach good health? (Infographic, July 2016)

What young people in Hackney want from health services (Infographic January 2015)

Participation and engagement

First 1001 days of the second decade (Film, October 2018)

AYPH participation statement (Nov 2017)

The Young People’s Acute Care Flow Chart (Oct 2017)

Young peoples experiences of acute care (Film, Oct 2017)

The Be Healthy Curriculum – facilitator resource (August 2017)

A guide for young people supporting each other – peer support resource  (March 2016)

How to improve services for young people in London – the Prescription Pad (July 2015)

Be Healthy – resources developed by young people affected by CSE

Our Voices podcast (below) – Lindsay Starbuck, AYPH’s Youth Participation Coordinator talks about using popular education techniques with young people affected by sexual violence (August 2017)

Briefings, blogs and other resources

Fake news:  a threat to curbing vaccine-preventable diseases in the UK (guest blog by AYPH’s Dr Rakhee Shah on the Nuffield Trust website, January 2019)

What’s in the new NHS Long Term Plan that is directly relevant to young people’s health?  (January 2019)

Briefing on mental health prevalence findings for 10-19 year olds.  Blog on the new children and young people’s mental health survey, January 2019

Reasons to be sober.  Blog on trends in youth drinking.  October 2018

A participatory animation project about the first 1001 days of the second decade  Briefing by AYPH’s Lindsay Starbuck, October 2018

Childhood obesity: a bolder new plan but still lacking in ambition (guest blog by AYPH’s Dr Rakhee Shah on the Nuffield Trust website, July 2018)

Young people’s health focus week (March 2018)

Why do we need to make health promotion for young people a priority?  (Blog, November 2017)

An overview of research on key issues in student health (April 2017)

Young people’s health – where are we up to? (March 2017)

The connections between young people’s mental health and sport participation: scoping the evidence  (Nov 2016)

‘There for you’: The role of parents in supporting young people with mental health problems: Results of a survey (Nov 2016)

Pharmacy for young people with longterm conditions (June 2016)

Tips for a ‘YP friendly’ GP practice (November 2015)

Screencast for professionals working with young people with type 1 diabetes (May 2016)

Young people and parents’ views on NHS digital strategy  (May 2016)

Evaluation of Youth Access ‘Right 2 Be Safe’ Project, final report (April 2015)

Promoting young people’s health literacy and understanding their help-seeking behaviour (March 2015)

Evaluation of the Be Healthy Project, final report (April 2013)

Young People, Mental Health and Sport (Blog, 2016)

Social determinants of young people’s health  (2013)

 

Published articles and book chapters 

Articles and reports published by AYPH staff (in bold):

• Shah R and Hagell A (2018) Public health for paediatricians: How can behavioural economics help to make paediatric practice more effective? Archives of Disease in Childhood – Education and Practice Published Online First: 15 September 2018. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315229
• Hagell A, Shah R, Viner R, Hargreaves D, Varnes L, Michelle Heys (2018) The social determinants of young people’s health: Identifying the key issues and assessing how young people are doing in the 2010s.  Health Foundation Working Paper:  London: Health Foundation
• RIgby E and Starbuck L Public health for paediatricians: engaging young people from marginalised groups.  Archives of Disease in Childhood – Education and Practice Published Online First: 10 August 2017. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312065
• Papoutsi C, Hargreaves D, Colligan G, Hagell A et al
  Group clinics for young adults with diabetes in an ethnically diverse, socioeconomically deprived setting (TOGETHER study): protocol for a realist review, co-design and mixed methods, participatory evaluation of a new care model
  BMJ Open 2017;7:e017363. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017363
• Hagell A and Maughan B (2017) Epidemiology: Are mental health problems in children and young people really a big issue?  In N Midgley, J Hayes and M Cooper (Eds) Essential Research Findings in Child and Adolescent Counselling and Psychotherapy.  London: Sage/BACP
• Yassaee A, Hargreaves D, Chester K, Lamb S, Hagell A and Brooks F (2016) Experience of primary care services among early adolescents in England and association with health outcomes.  Journal of Adolescent Health, advance on-line
• Alsaleh F, Smith F, Rigby E and Gray N (2016) Applying the ‘You’re Welcome’ youth friendly service criteria to community pharmacy in the UK. Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research 7; 71–79
• Association for Young People’s Health (2016) ‘There for you’: The role of parents in supporting young people with mental health problems: Results of a survey.  London: AYPH
• Hagell A (2016) The connections between young people’s mental health and sport participation: Scoping the evidence.  London: AYPH
• Hagell A and Lamb S (2016) Developing an integrated primary health care and youth work service for young people in Lambeth; learning from the Well Centre.  Journal of Children’s Services, 11(3) 233-243
• Gray N, McDonagh J, Barker C, Burton J, Campbell R, Prescott J, Shaw K, Smith F, and Terry D (2016) Pharmacy for young people with longterm conditions. Pharmacy Research UK
• Hagell A (2015) Building a picture of health from data.  Journal of Family Health, 25(5) 32-33
• Coleman J and Hagell A (2015) Young people, health and youth policy.  Youth and Policy, No.114, p17-30
• Pleasance P, Balmer N and Hagell A (2015) Health inequality and access to justice: Young people, mental health and legal issues.  London: Youth Access
• Layard R and Hagell A (2015) Healthy young minds: Transforming the mental health of children.  World Innovation Summit for Health, Qatar: Qatar Foundation
• Hagell A, Rigby E and Perrow F (2015) Promoting health literacy in secondary schools.  British Journal of School Nursing 10(2) 82-87
• Hagell A and Rigby E (2015) Looking at the effectiveness of prevention and early intervention.  British Journal of School Nursing 10(1) 26-30
• Perrow F (2014) Making a difference: GP Champions project Journal of School and Public Health Nurses Association Jan/Feb, p16-17

Research Updates

You can also download summaries of our Research Updates on these adolescent health issues:

ADHD
Longterm Conditions
Mental health
New technology
Obesity
Self-harm
Sexual health
Sleep
Substance use

 

Presentations and talks

Click here to catch up with recent AYPH presentations and talks