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The policies and practices to build the health and wellbeing of youth occur largely outside the health sector. Yet there is a prevailing mistaken belief in society that youth need to be given messages about appropriate health behaviours such as healthy eating practices and responsible drinking, and that, as a consequence, they will become healthier and less vulnerable to disease. This paper asserts that this is not the case.
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Leger, L.S. (2015). Investing in Youth Health Assets. In: Riele, K.t., Gorur, R. (eds) Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice. Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-121-2_6
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