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Title: Working with Adolescents for Adolescents: Malaysian Association for Adolescent Health Thiyagar MD, M


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Working with Adolescents for Adolescents
Malaysian Association for Adolescent Health
Thiyagar MD, MMed(Paeds)(USM) Fellowship
Adolescent Med(Aust) 1 Nazeli Hamzah MBBS(UM),
MRCP(Paediatrics)21Department of Paediatrics,
Hospital Sultan Abdul Halim, Sungai Petani, Kedah
2 President, Malaysian Association for
Adolescent Health
Dr.N.Thiyagar
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  • The United Nations defined adolescence
  • - as the stage of life at which individuals
    reach sexual maturity,
  • - period of transition from puberty to
    maturity.
  • Adolescence(10-19 years old) is a period where a
    young person undergoes rapid physical, sexual
    and psychosocial changes that leads to
    significant struggle in a persons life.

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Why do we need to invest ADOLESCENT health?
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The lancet Vol 374 September 12, 2009 Global
patterns of mortality in young people a
systematic analysis of population health data
George C Patton, Carolyn Coffey, Susan M Sawyer,
Russell M Viner, Dagmar M Haller, Krishna Bose,
Theo Vos, Jane Ferguson, Colin D Mathers
  • 26 million deaths occurred in people aged 1024
    years in 2004.
  • 256 million (97) of these deaths were in
    low-income and middle-income countries
  • Two thirds (167 million) were in sub-Saharan
    Africa and southeast Asia.
  • Pronounced rises in mortality rates were recorded
    from early adolescence (1014 years) to young
    adulthood (2024 years).
  • Maternal conditions were a leading cause of
    female deaths at 15.
  • HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis contributed to 11 of
    deaths.
  • Traffic accidents were the largest cause and
    accounted for 14 of male and 5 of female
    deaths.
  • Other prominent causes included violence (12 of
    male deaths) and suicide (6 of all deaths).

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Then and now..
  • "The children now love luxury they have bad
    manners, contempt for authority they show
    disrespect for elders and love to chatter in
    place of exercise.
  • Children are now tyrants, not the servants of
    their households.
  • They no longer rise when elders enter the
    room.
  • They contradict their parents, gobble up food
    at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize
    their teachers.
  • Socrates

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Then and now..
  • The right way to begin is to pay attention to
    the young, and make them just as good as
    possible. The only tyrant I accept in this world
    is the still voice within.
  • Mahatma Gandhi

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Intervention
  • Complementary actions are needed to promote
  • - healthy development in adolescents
  • - to prevent health problems or problem
    behaviours,
  • - to respond to them if and when they arise.
  • They need interventions
  • - to decrease and to mitigate their
    vulnerability including i) information and
    skills
  • ii) a safe and supportive environment
  • iii) appropriate and accessible health
    services.

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Who needs to contribute to the health and
development of adolescents?
  • The ADOLESCENT himself or herself.
  • Parents, siblings and other family members
  • Influential individuals, i.e friends, teachers,
    sports coaches/figures, health workers and
    religious leaders, musicians, film stars
  • Politicians, bureaucrats and journalists

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  • Registered  in 2006.
  • Open to all who are interested in adolescent
    health
  • Sole aim is to carry out activities which would
    directly or indirectly benefit our Malaysian
    adolescents to eventually empower them to be role
    models to others.

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  • Promoting adolescent health
  • - by encouraging meaningful youth
    participation,
  • - by encouraging multidisciplinary membership
  • -by maintaining a health (rather than purely
    medical) focus.

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Partnership
  • Malaysian Medical Association,
  • Ministry of Health Malaysia,
  • Ministry of Education ,
  • National Population family Development Board
  • Malaysian Paediatric Association

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NETWORKING
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APPROACH
NSOAH National Symposium on Adolescent Health
TOT Train the Trainer
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1.LEARNING MARKET
  • Since the year 2007
  • The 1st Adolescent Health Learning market Look
    Good, Feel Good.
  • The objective was to help build the ideal image
    of the adolescents.

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1.LEARNING MARKET
  • The 2nd MAAH Learning Market held in 2008,
  • - to empower them to handle delicate situations
    in a relationship.

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2.NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH(NSOAH)
  • Started by the Adolescent subcommittee of
    Malaysian Medical Association in 2003.
  • However since 2006 with collaboration with MAAH,
    NSOAH was elevated to greater heights.
  • NSOAHs objectives are to educate the
    participants on various medical and non medical
    issues pertinent to adolescents.

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3.OUTREACH PROGRAMME
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3.1 Outreach program in Pahang
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3.2. Outreach program in Kuala Lumpur
  • The project was entitled Program Remaja
    Resilien
  • Module prepared by the National Population
    Family Development Board called the Im in
    Control module
  • The objective of the day was to empower the young
    people on Sexual and Reproductive Health issues
    as well as issues of addiction particularly
    tobacco.

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4. TRAIN THE TRAINERS
  • Reproductive Health of the Adolescent module
    (RHAM).
  • Enable MAAH to have a pool of trained personnel
  • Training their peer educators hopefully will help
    disseminate the much needed knowledge on sexual
    and reproductive health.

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5.RESEARCH
  • MAAH is identifying areas for more research to
    gather local data, especially in the areas of
    sexual health, addiction, lifestyle, medical
    problems as well as road traffic accidents .

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6.OTHER ACTIVITIES
  • Other activities planned
  • - formation of an MAAH percussion band
  • -to act as ambassadors of MAAH as well as to
    encourage youths to participate in meaningful
    activities.
  • - educational talks in schools
  • - camps
  • - extreme sports

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Conclusion
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