The report “Spotlight on Adolescent Health and Well-Being” from the WHO International HBSC Survey with data from 45 countries has been published

On 19 May 2020, the WHO Regional Office for Europe published the report “Spotlight on Adolescent Health and Well-being”, presenting results from the international comparative survey “Health Behaviour in School-aged Children – HBSC”, conducted in 2017/2018 in 45 countries in Europe and Canada. The survey has been conducted every four years since 1982 in a growing number of countries. In Bulgaria it is carried out by a team from the Institute for Population and Human Studies – BAS and the Health Psychology Research Center and is led by Assoc. Prof. Lidiya Vasileva, PhD, IPHS-BAS.

You can learn more about the results of the survey in Bulgaria and about the international picture here.

The two parts of the report “Spotlight on Adolescent Health and Well-Being” are available on the webpage of WHO Regional Office for Europe at the following links:

Volume 1: Key findings – http://www.euro.who.int/en/hbsc-spotlight-vol1

Volume 2: Key data – http://www.euro.who.int/en/hbsc-spotlight-vol2