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Understand the lives of youth in low-income countries

For most of the world’s adolescents, poverty and social marginalization influence health much more than risk-taking does, argue Robert Blum and Jo Boyden.
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  1. Robert Blum

    1. Robert Blum is the director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and lead researcher on the Global Early Adolescent Study.

  2. Jo Boyden

    1. Jo Boyden is professor of international development and director of the Young Lives study at the University of Oxford, UK.

Nearly 90% of current evidence about adolescence comes from research in high-income countries. Yet nine-tenths of people aged between 10 and 24 live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where this life stage looks very different (see ‘Worlds apart’).

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Nature 554, 435-437 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02107-w

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