Past community programmes

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Young Health community programmes are developed to meet local needs and resources and are executed in over 40 countries by non-profit organisation partners, often with AstraZeneca employees volunteering their support.

The programmes below have been completed and have informed later activities.



Angola

Accelerating youth-led action to prevent non-communicable diseases

Australia - Driving Change

Improving access to transport for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Australia - Kitchen Gardens

Developing professional learning and educational resources for secondary school educators to deliver hands-on pleasurable food education.


Australia - Helping Young People

Helping young people in rural Australia cope with mental ill health

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Building a new narrative that smoking is not healthy, nor cool

Brazil

Brazil Phases 1 and 2 addressing youth health issues in Maranhão (2010 – 2015) and São Paulo (2017 – 2020).


Brazil

Empowering youth with knowledge, services and advocacy for NCD prevention. (2020 - 2025)

Bulgaria

Tackling tobacco smoking by promoting positive role models

Canada - Young Canadians roundtable on health


Canada - Flex Your Head

12 module programme on mental health and wellness developed with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada.

Canada - At my best

Long-running schools programme for kindergarten to grade 6 on physical activity, healthy eating, and emotional wellbeing

China

Delivering awareness and education on the contributing factors to non-communicable diseases. Supporting autistic children in the community


Croatia

Building a new narrative that smoking is not healthy, nor cool

Denmark

Adventure club programme encouraging physical activity and healthy diet among socially vulnerable young people.

Hong Kong

Supporting youth who play sports and their sports coaches with ways to manage their own, and their peers’, mental health more effectively


India

India Phases 1 and 2 addressing youth health in resettlement communities across Delhi’

India

Well-established programme addressing NCDs and sexual and reproductive health around Delhi.

Indonesia

Tobacco-focused campaign in three cities aligned with national government health promotion initiatives.


Israel

Participatory workshops led by people with disabilities aim to promote healthy habits to curb non communicable diseases in Israel

Italy

Supporting pediatric patients and their families through sports and wellbeing activities

Japan

Supporting children's cafeterias with nutritional education to enable young people to live healthier lives


Jordan

Be the Change – For You: Young Health Programme Jordan

Kenya

Programme from 2016 reducing risk behaviours around NCDs and addressing adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Kibera.

Korea

Addressing mental health and suicidal behaviour in adolescence.


Korea

Supporting the mental health of young people in Seoul

Malaysia

Improving awareness of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), with particular focus on kidney disease

Myanmar

New programme in 2019 in Yangon neighbourhoods


Netherlands

Linking research and experiential expertise on youth homelessness, to develop effective interventions.

Norway

Helping families of undocumented migrants in Oslo to gain access to appropriate support.

Palestinian Territories

Learn more about how the YHP is supporting young Palestinians in the Gaza and West Bank areas to bring their entrepreneurial ideas to life


Papua New Guinea

Accelerating youth-led action to prevent non-communicable diseases

Poland

Connecting mental well-being and NCD prevention through youth-led action

Portugal

Encouraging young people to take control of their health and well-being, build self-reliance and self-respect.


Serbia

Focus on changing youth attitudes to smoking.

YHP Türkiye - Run first for first aid

A school-based first aid training programme for high school students

Türkiye - I am a teenager

This project investigated the causes of violence in schools and assessed techniques to reduce it


Türkiye - Hey youth! Take action!

A school-based programme to improve diet and exercise with a social media twist

UK

Research and the development of support materials for professionals working with homeless young people.

USA

Multi-stakeholder work promoting behaviour change amongst young adolescents in disadvantaged communities in Delaware.


Vietnam

Peer education programme based in Hanoi

Zambia

Educating young people in disadvantaged communities on NCD risk factors and sexual health.