Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Reflections on the Past 25 Years

Centering Gender in Our Clinical, Public Health, and Research Programs

“…The findings build on the existing body of research on gender and health and provide new evidence on the importance of gender norms for adolescent and young adult health [8]. Another recent supplement to the Journal focused its attention on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [9]. The current supplement expands that discussion to include the role that gender plays beyond reproductive health and, as Greene and Patton point out in their editorial, the importance of considering different health outcomes for boys and girls [10].…”