Two very different reports, published last week, make a strong plea to pay more attention to an age group that is frequently invisible, neglected, or vilified in discussions on health and wellbeing.The UN Population Fund's (UNFPA) State of World Population 2013 report Motherhood in childhood: facing the challenge of adolescent pregnancy serves as a reminderthat there is the enormous unfinished issue of 7-3 million births that occur to adolescent girls in developing countries every year. And at the launch of the final report of the Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European Reg/on, its chair Michael Marmot warns that "unemployment, particularly the persistent high level of youth unemployment, is a public health time bomb waiting to explode".
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