Title: Working with Adolescents for Adolescents: Malaysian Association for Adolescent Health Thiyagar MD, M
1Working 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
2- 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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4Why do we need to invest ADOLESCENT health?
5The 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).
6Then 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
7Then 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
8Intervention
- 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.
9Who 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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14- 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.
15- 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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18Partnership
- Malaysian Medical Association,
- Ministry of Health Malaysia,
- Ministry of Education ,
- National Population family Development Board
- Malaysian Paediatric Association
19 NETWORKING
20APPROACH
NSOAH National Symposium on Adolescent Health
TOT Train the Trainer
211.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.
221.LEARNING MARKET
- The 2nd MAAH Learning Market held in 2008,
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- - to empower them to handle delicate situations
in a relationship.
232.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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253.OUTREACH PROGRAMME
263.1 Outreach program in Pahang
273.2. 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.
284. 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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305.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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326.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
33Conclusion
34Thank you for listening!