Training resources
Comprehensive care
This document describes health workers’ competencies and behaviours necessary to advance universal health coverage for the world’s adolescents. The framework proposes an adolescent-specific adaptation of the 24 competencies set out in the Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for Universal Health Coverage (2022), organized into six domains.
The tool is designed for use by any health professional who is involved in the care of adolescents.
This guidance is based on an evidence review undertaken by a group of international experts in adolescent medicine, adolescent gynaecology, nursing, epidemiology, public health, law, developmental, forensic and clinical psychology, psychiatry, sociology and bioethics (10) and was developed by an panel of 13 professionals representing different contexts and geographical regions with expertise in primary and referral-level paediatric and adolescent health care, children’s rights, bioethics, developmental psychology and research in competence and decision-making capacity.
Web Annex. Algorithm for health-care providers
This Pocket Book is for use by doctors, nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of children and adolescents at the primary health care level. It summarizes guidance on how to manage – and when to refer – children and adolescents presenting with common complaints and conditions. It includes information to enable primary health care providers to coordinate the continued care of children and adolescents with long-term conditions and diseases managed by specialists. Preventive and promotive measures from the newborn period to adolescence include advice on the timing and content of well-child visits, the promotion of early childhood development and health messages for adolescents.
The Adolescent Job Aid is a handy desk reference tool for health workers (trained and registered doctors, nurses and clinical officers) who provide services to children, adolescents and adults. It aims to help these health workers respond to their adolescent patients more effectively and with greater sensitivity. It provides precise, step-by-step guidance on how to deal with adolescents when they present with a problem or a concern about their health or development.
Environmental health
WHO training package on CEH for health professionals (10 modules updated 2019/2020)
Mental health
The guide emphasizes competency-based education that equips future doctors and nurses with the attitudes, knowledge, and skills needed to provide quality care for people with MNS conditions.
As part of the Mental Health Gap Action Programme, WHO has developed training manuals (Training of trainers and supervisors training manual and Training of health-care providers training manual) to support implementation of the mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders in non-specialized health settings, version 2.0. These manuals can be used to build capacity among non-specialist health-care providers in the assessment and management of people with priority MNS conditions in low resource settings.
Sexual and reproductive health
- Socio-demographic and contextual characteristics: individual, family, household, peer, school, and neighborhood
- Health and behaviours: Self-perceived health and body comfort, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, adversity and violence, substance use, romantic and sexual experiences, and media engagement
- Perceptions of gender norms and gender attitudes: Gender norms scales, gender stereotypical roles, gender stereotypical traits, and the vignettes-based measure of gender equality
Violence prevention
This handbook is intended primarily for front-line health care providers who are likely to see children (among other clients) in their day-to-day practice. These may include general practitioners, nurses, midwives, gynaecologists, paediatricians, mental health professionals, first responders and staff in emergency care.