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Youth

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Youth is the time of life when one is young, and often means the time between childhood and adulthood (maturity). [1]

108 relations: Action (philosophy), Adolescence, Adult, Age of candidacy, Age of consent, Age of majority, Alcohol, Alcoholic drink, Anxiety, Ballot access, Barangay, Blount's disease, Brazil, Bullying, Car, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Childhood, Children's rights, Children, Youth and Environments, Chronology, Competence (law), Comprehensive sex education, Country, Crime, Death, Defendant, Defense (legal), Defense of infancy, Depression in childhood and adolescence, Developing country, Driver's license, Emotional security, English language, Excuse, Ghetto, Globalization, Happiness, Harmful, Health, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Human population planning, Human sexual activity, Hyperlipidemia, Hypertension, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, Impaired glucose tolerance, Index of youth articles, India, Infant, ..., Injury, International Youth Day, Jurisdiction, Law, Legal drinking age, Legal liability, List of countries by minimum driving age, Loneliness, Marriage, Maturity (psychological), Maxima and minima, Measure of America, Minor (law), Morality, Mother, Niger, Nomination rules, Obesity, OECD, Overweight, Philippine barangay elections, 2013, Philippine legal codes, Philippines, Psychosocial, Puberty, Rights, Safe sex, Sangguniang Kabataan, Sedentary lifestyle, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Sex education, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Sexually transmitted infection, Sleep apnea, Social position, Student, Student rights in higher education, Substance abuse, Suffrage, Suicide, Tribe, Tuberculosis, Unintended pregnancy, United Nations, University, Unpaid work, Violence, Voting age, World Health Organization, Youth activism, Youth culture, Youth in Mongolia, Youth in Nigeria, Youth smoking, Youth sports, Youth unemployment, Youth voice. Expand index (58 more) »

Action (philosophy)

In philosophy, an action is something which is done by an agent.

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Adolescence

AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.

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Adult

Biologically, an adult is a human or other organism that has reached sexual maturity.

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Age of candidacy

Age of candidacy is the minimum age at which a person can legally qualify to hold certain elected government offices.

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Age of consent

The age of consent is the age below which a minor is considered to be legally incompetent to consent to sexual acts.

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Age of majority

The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law.

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Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.

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Alcoholic drink

An alcoholic drink (or alcoholic beverage) is a drink that contains ethanol, a type of alcohol produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar.

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Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.

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Ballot access

Ballot access rules, called nomination rules outside the United States, regulate the conditions under which a candidate or political party is entitled either to stand for election or to appear on voters' ballots.

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Barangay

A barangay ((abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), formerly referred to as barrio, is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. In metropolitan areas, the term often refers to an inner city neighbourhood, a suburb or a suburban neighborhood. The word barangay originated from balangay, a kind of boat used by a group of Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines. Municipalities and cities in the Philippines are subdivided into barangays, with the exception of the municipalities of Adams in Ilocos Norte and Kalayaan, Palawan which each contain only one barangay. The barangay itself is sometimes informally subdivided into smaller areas called purok (English: "zone"), barangay zones consisting of a cluster of houses, and sitios, which are territorial enclaves—usually rural—far from the barangay center., there were 42,029 barangays throughout the Philippines.

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Blount's disease

Blount's disease is a growth disorder of the tibia (shin bone) that causes the lower leg to angle inward, resembling a bowleg.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively dominate others.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national public health institute of the United States.

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Childhood

Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.

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Children's rights

Children's rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.

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Children, Youth and Environments

Children, Youth and Environments is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research articles, in-depth analyses, field reports, and book reviews on research, policy, and practice concerning inclusive and sustainable environments for children and youth worldwide.

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Chronology

Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, "time"; and -λογία, -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.

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Competence (law)

In United States law, competence concerns the mental capacity of an individual to participate in legal proceedings or transactions, and the mental condition a person must have to be responsible for his or her decisions or acts.

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Comprehensive sex education

Comprehensive sex education (CSE) is a sex education instruction method based on-curriculum that aims to give students the knowledge, attitudes, skills and values to make appropriate and healthy choices in their sexual lives.

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Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Death

Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

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Defendant

A defendant is a person accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or a person against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.

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Defense (legal)

In civil proceedings and criminal prosecutions under the common law, a defendant may raise a defense (or defence) in an attempt to avoid criminal or civil liability.

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Defense of infancy

The defense of infancy is a form of defense known as an excuse so that defendants falling within the definition of an "infant" are excluded from criminal liability for their actions, if at the relevant time, they had not reached an age of criminal responsibility.

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Depression in childhood and adolescence

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity.

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Developing country

A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Driver's license

A driver's license is an official document permitting a specific individual to operate one or more types of motorized vehicles, such as a motorcycle, car, truck, or bus on a public road.

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Emotional security

Emotional security is the measure of the stability of an individual's emotional state.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Excuse

In jurisprudence, an excuse is a defense to criminal charges that is distinct from an exculpation.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Happiness

In psychology, happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

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Harmful

Harmful is a rock band from Frankfurt, Germany, founded in 1992 and frequently compared to early Helmet and more occasionally to Blackmail.

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Health

Health is the ability of a biological system to acquire, convert, allocate, distribute, and utilize energy with maximum efficiency.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Human population planning

Human population planning is the practice of intentionally managing the rate of growth of a human population.

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Human sexual activity

Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.

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Hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia is abnormally elevated levels of any or all lipids or lipoproteins in the blood.

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Hypertension

Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.

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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a condition characterized by increased intracranial pressure (pressure around the brain) without a detectable cause.

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Impaired glucose tolerance

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) is a pre-diabetic state of hyperglycemia that is associated with insulin resistance and increased risk of cardiovascular pathology.

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Index of youth articles

The following is a list of youth topics.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Infant

An infant (from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless") is the more formal or specialised synonym for "baby", the very young offspring of a human.

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Injury

Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force.

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International Youth Day

International Youth Day (IYD) is an awareness day designated by the United Nations.

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Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice within a defined field of responsibility, e.g., Michigan tax law.

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Law

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.

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Legal drinking age

The legal drinking age is the age at which a person can legally consume alcoholic beverages.

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Legal liability

In law, liable means "esponsible or answerable in law; legally obligated." Legal liability concerns both civil law and criminal law and can arise from various areas of law, such as contracts, torts, taxes, or fines given by government agencies.

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List of countries by minimum driving age

The minimum driving age is the minimum age at which a person may obtain a driver's licence to lawfully drive a motor vehicle on public roads.

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Loneliness

Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Maturity (psychological)

In psychology, maturity is the ability to respond to the environment in an appropriate manner.

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Maxima and minima

In mathematical analysis, the maxima and minima (the respective plurals of maximum and minimum) of a function, known collectively as extrema (the plural of extremum), are the largest and smallest value of the function, either within a given range (the local or relative extrema) or on the entire domain of a function (the global or absolute extrema).

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Measure of America

Measure of America is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative of the Social Science Research Council in Brooklyn, New York.

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Minor (law)

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood.

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Morality

Morality (from) is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper.

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Mother

A mother is the female parent of a child.

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Niger

Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.

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Nomination rules

Nomination rules in elections regulate the conditions under which a candidate or political party is entitled to stand for election.

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Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Overweight

Being overweight or fat is having more body fat than is optimally healthy.

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Philippine barangay elections, 2013

Barangay elections was held on Monday, October 28, 2013.

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Philippine legal codes

Codification of laws is a common practice in the Philippines.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Psychosocial

The psychosocial approach looks at individuals in the context of the combined influence that psychological factors and the surrounding social environment have on their physical and mental wellness and their ability to function.

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Puberty

Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.

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Rights

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

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Safe sex

Safe sex is sexual activity engaged in by people who have taken precautions to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as HIV.

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Sangguniang Kabataan

Sangguniang Kabataan (abbreviated as SK), is a council meant to represent the youth in each barangay in the Philippines.

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Sedentary lifestyle

A sedentary lifestyle is a type of lifestyle with little or no physical activity.

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Self-concept

One's self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself.

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Self-esteem

Self-esteem reflects an individual's overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.

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Sex education

Sex education is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, age of consent, reproductive health, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control and sexual abstinence.

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights

Sexual and reproductive health and rights or SRHR is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and reproduction.

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Sexually transmitted infection

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex.

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Sleep apnea

Sleep apnea, also spelled sleep apnoea, is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or periods of shallow breathing during sleep.

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Social position

Social position is the position of an individual in a given society and culture.

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Student

A student is a learner or someone who attends an educational institution.

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Student rights in higher education

Student rights are those rights, such as civil, constitutional, contractual and consumer rights, which regulate student rights and freedoms and allow students to make use of their educational investment.

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Substance abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.

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Suffrage

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Tribe

A tribe is viewed developmentally, economically and historically as a social group existing outside of or before the development of states.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Unintended pregnancy

Unintended pregnancies are pregnancies that are mistimed, unplanned or unwanted at the time of conception.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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University

A university (universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

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Unpaid work

Unpaid labor is defined as labor that does not receive any direct remuneration.

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Violence

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation," although the group acknowledges that the inclusion of "the use of power" in its definition expands on the conventional understanding of the word.

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Voting age

A voting age is a minimum age established by law that a person must attain before they become eligible to vote in a public election.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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Youth activism

Youth activism is youth engagement in community organizing for social change.

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Youth culture

Youth culture is the way adolescents live, and the norms, values, and practices they share.

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Youth in Mongolia

Youth in Mongolia constituted 18.7% of the population in 2014, numbering roughly 552 thousand individuals.

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Youth in Nigeria

Youth in Nigeria includes citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria aged 18–35 years.

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Youth smoking

Smoking among youth and adolescents is an issue that affects countries worldwide.

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Youth sports

Youth sport (British English) or youth athletics (American English) is any sports event where competitors are younger than adult age, whether children or adolescents.

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Youth unemployment

Youth unemployment is the unemployment of young people, defined by the United Nations as 15–24 years old.

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Youth voice

Youth voice refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth

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