明白了青少年的成長和發展，令我們更加容易了解青少年健康問題多源自其本身的行為。保持青少年健康不能只靠灌輸健康知識，要為青少年制定健康的模式，健康教育也要融入健康的行為。這是要從社會、客觀環境和心理的層面出發，並從基層、第二和第三層推行。基層醫療預防工作可利用健康促進學校的模式推行。而第二及第三層的防預性策略，我們需要構想具創意的策略，由此需要在一個適合青少年的環境下，制定以青少年為目標，以問題為源，及注重其效果的、全面性的和綜合多專業的協調方案。這些策略必須要倚重實據來檢討其成效。Understanding adolescent growth and development allows us to appreciate why they behave or act in a particular manner. Unhealthy behaviors and actions taken by adolescents would directly hamper their health status. Health education should incorporate elements that cultivate healthy behavior. These elements may be found in social, environmental and psychological arenas and are equally applicable at the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention levels. The concept of Health Promoting Schools could be adopted for primary health prevention. For secondary and tertiary prevention, these would require the adoption of a problem orientated, solution focused, holistic and collaborative approach for a targeted audience in an adolescent sensitive environment. The outcome evaluation for these strategies should be evidence-based.[Copyright of Journal of Youth Studies is the property of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups at http://yrc.hkfyg.org.hk/]
