Impact of novel environmental behavior risk factors on adolescent health deserves more attention / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Abstract@#The adolescent health has posed a public health concern around the world. The dramatic change in urbanization, socialeconamic transitions, and multiculture impact often play a driving role in the emergence of new environmental behavioral risk factors, such as exposure to light at night, smartphone multitasking, dietary rhythm disorders, and social jetlag. The dimensions of physical and mental health problems in adolescents were extensive, often based on the most prominent mental health problems, cardiometabolic health, neck-shoulder and low back pain, and clustering of health risk behaviors. In order to achieve the sustainable development goals of promoting adolescent health, it is necessary to strengthen the intervention on novel environmental and behavioral risk factors to prevent the physical and mental health hazards of adolescents from the source.