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Events & conferences > MYD Seminar series > The health and wellbeing of young people
The health and wellbeing of young people
On 14 February 2008, The Ministry of Youth Development hosted a seminar on “The health and wellbeing of young people: challenging orthodoxies and setting new directions” by Richard Eckersley.
Richard Eckersley is a Fellow at the Australian National University's
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health in Canberra and a
founding director of Australia 21, a non-profit, public-interest,
research company.
Richard Eckersley's research explores progress and wellbeing,
and includes measures of national progress; the relationships between
economic growth, quality of life and sustainability; the social and
cultural determinants of health and happiness; visions of the future;
and young people and their world. He discussed the conflicting data on young people's health;
asked whether economic growth is having a positive or negative impact
on their wellbeing; and explored the gap between the kind of future
young people say they would prefer to the one they actually expect.
More Information
Dr Kleeb’s presentation is available to download under the "Related documents" heading below.
For additional information, email us at mydinfo@myd.govt.nz
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