Contents -- Tables and figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Background to Health Policy-making -- 2 Principled Policy-making: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 3 Evidence-based Policy-making: Adolescent Health Research -- PART TWO: KEY EXAMPLES OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH RESEARCH AND POLICY -- 4 Socio-economic Status and the Health and Well-being of Youths in Canada -- 5 Health Promotion through School Improvement -- 6 The Health and Well-being of Aboriginal Youths in Canada -- 7 Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Adolescence: Policy Implications of Early Age of Sexual Debut -- 8 Substance Use: Harm Reduction and the Rights of the Canadian Adolescent -- 9 Responding to Bullying and Harassment: An Issue of Rights -- 10 Injury and Youth: Scope of the Injury Problem and Implications for Policy -- PART THREE: POLICY PROBLEMS, ANALYSIS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 11 Improvements to the Policy Process to Increase Use of Evidence: Research Translation Examined -- 12 Improvements to Research to Benefit Policy -- 13 Application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Adolescent Health Policy -- 14 Recommendations for Developing Adolescent Health Policy -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- U.