Mapping adolescent health and well-being in Brazil

This project intends to start the mapping process on adolescents’ health and well-being issues in Brazil, a key step to the development of interventions and policies that protect and promote the quality of young people’s lives. In order to contribute to the local and international knowledge base on these issues, this study aims to map health and well-being indicators and behaviors, besides the related social environments, based on the Health Behaviour in School Children-aged Protocol (HBSC). The sample comprised 1500 public school students between 13 and 15 years old (750 in each age group ) belonging to five different Brazilian cities – in the state of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Rondonia, and Rio Grande do Sul. Thus, is also possible to verify similarities and differences between these states. This project aims to start a research line on health and well-being of adolescents in Brazil – an international partnership with Margarida Gaspar de Matos of University of Lisboa – and the adaptation of the HBSC survey to the Brazilian context.