Work group I: developing models of healthy adolescent physical development

Aimed to use advances in behavioural and biomedical research and technology as a background for developing adolescent physical health research priorities for the next decade. Although adolescent health problems are considered, also focuses on health promotion rather than disease during the adolescent years. Recommendations highlight how the physiological and behavioural changes that occur during adolescence may affect health throughout the life span. (Quotes from original text)