Health of the world's adolescents: a synthesis of internationally comparable data.

The article focuses on the health of adolescents around the world using an international comparable data. It describes various indicators related to adolescent health which were selected for their importance in public health and their coverage of health outcomes in the young people. It mentions that the worst adolescent health profiles belonged to the sub-Saharan Africa, where there is a persisting high mortality due to infectious and maternal causes.