Youth & NCD Digital Health Interventions

A library of research on how digital health interventions can engage youth in low- and middle-income countries to minimize their risks of noncommunicable diseases.

20 case studies

Text to Quit China: an mHealth Smoking Cessation Trial

Tobacco Use

Augustson, Erik, Michael M. Engelgau, Shu Zhang, Ying Cai, Willie Cher, Richun Li, Yuan Jiang, Krystal Lynch, and Julie E. Bromberg
American Journal of Health Promotion 31, no. 3 (2017): 217-225

2017ChinaText MessagingRandomized Controlled Trial (RCT)

Evaluation of the Computer-Based Intervention Program Stayingfit Brazil to Promote Healthy Eating Habits: The Results from a School Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Physical Inactivity

Brito Beck da Silva, Karine, Naiá Ortelan, Sheila Giardini Murta, Isabel Sartori, Ricardo David Couto, Rosemeire Leovigildo Fiaccone, Maurício Lima Barreto, Megan Jones Bell, Craig Barr Taylor, and Rita de Cassia Ribeiro-Silva
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 10 (2019): 1674

2019BrazilOnline ProgramRandomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
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This website was funded by the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP). YHP is a disease prevention program with a unique focus on adolescents. It was founded in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Plan International, with local NGO partners implementing YHP programs on the ground. The YHP mission is to positively impact the health of adolescents in marginalized communities worldwide through research, advocacy, and on-the-ground programs focused on NCD prevention.

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Older adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health behaviors vary based on an individual’s geographic setting in rural or urban areas, practice of polygamy, and couple and community education levels.

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What are social norms?

Older adolescents’ use of family planning methods, especially for spacing births, depend on a number of factors, which may affect men and women differently. Examples of factors that may be associated with variations in use of family planning for spacing births are:

The following factors have been categorized into the most relevant level of the socio-ecological framework1 for simplicity, although elements of each factor may be relevant to more than one category.

Individual

  •  Religion2
  • Migrant vs resident husbands3
  • Nomadic pastoralist women vs semi-nomadic pastoralist women4

Interpersonal

  • Couple and Community Education5
  • Polygamy6
  • Couple and Community Socio-economic Status7

Community
• Post-conflict Settings8
• Geographic Setting (Urban and Rural)9