The Adolescent job aid is a handy desk reference. It is intended for health workers who provide primary care services (including promotive, preventive and curative health services) to adolescents. These health workers include doctors, midwives, nurses and clinical officers. The Adolescent job aid takes into account the fact that in most settings health workers provide health services to children and adults in addition to adolescents.  

Its purpose is to enable health workers to respond to adolescents more effectively and with greater sensitivity. To do this, it provides precise and step-wise guidance on how to deal with adolescents when they present with a problem or concern regarding their health and development. 

It contains guidance on commonly occurring adolescent-specific problems or concerns that have not been addressed in existing World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines (e.g. delayed menarche). It also contains guidance on some problems and concerns that are not adolescent specific but occur commonly in adolescents (e.g. sexually transmitted infections) and highlights special considerations in dealing with these conditions in adolescents. Available in Albanian, Chinese, and French from WHO.