{"id":396,"date":"2019-06-03T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/?p=396"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T10:18:27","slug":"youth-in-crisis-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/youth-in-crisis-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth in crisis in the Middle East and North Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Youth in crisis in the Middle East and North Africa:<br \/>\nA systematic literature review and focused landscape analysis<\/h3>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong>\u00a0Recent political and demographic factors have exposed the vulnerability of the youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This study aimed to elucidate the current needs, activities, stakeholders and solutions related to at-risk youth and young adults in the MENA region. A systematic literature review was conducted of the peer-reviewed and grey literature. This was complemented by an in-region landscape analysis involving key-informant interviews and focus group discussions. After extensive screening of 1160 unique articles, 275 articles were considered relevant to this study. Of these 275, 145 (52.7%) were related to health (64.8% of these related to mental health), 101 (36.7%) to livelihood, 87 (31.6%) to violence prevention and 68 (24.7%) to education. Important themes and challenges identified in the literature and discussions included the MENA region\u2019s growing youth bulge; youth unemployment; critical gender gaps; and the impact of conflict on livelihoods, education and health, especially mental health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the Original Post Here:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/emhj-volume-21-2015\/volume-21-issue-12\/youth-in-crisis-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-a-systematic-literature-review-and-focused-landscape-analysis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/emhj-volume-21-2015\/volume-21-issue-12\/youth-in-crisis-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-a-systematic-literature-review-and-focused-landscape-analysis.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Full PDF Report Here:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/applications.emro.who.int\/emhj\/v21\/12\/EMHJ_2015_21_12_916_930.pdf?ua=1&amp;ua=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/applications.emro.who.int\/emhj\/v21\/12\/EMHJ_2015_21_12_916_930.pdf?ua=1&amp;ua=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth in crisis in the Middle East and North Africa: A systematic literature review and focused landscape analysis ABSTRACT\u00a0Recent political and demographic factors have exposed the vulnerability of the youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This study aimed to elucidate the current needs, activities, stakeholders and solutions related to at-risk youth<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/youth-in-crisis-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa\/\" class=\"more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}