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Drawing from work with the World Health Organization I have analyzed data from the cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study to understand trends around bullying, sexual health and the impact of cross-national policies. I am also curious about youth participation in policy matters that affect them and on the impact of food insecurity in childhood and adolescence. I have participated on the evaluation and development of the European child and adolescent health strategy.
Journal Articles
Currie CE, Alemán-Díaz AY, Bosáková L, and de Looze M. Measuring socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health: a 25-year history of the Family Affluence Scale. Social Science and Medicine-Population Health. 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101599
de Looze ME, Henking C, Torsheim T, Currie DB, Weber MW & Alemán-Díaz AY. Toward a tobacco-free generation: The effectiveness of MPOWER tobacco control policies for adolescents across 36 countries. International Journal of Drug Policy Nov;109. 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103871.
Park, M, Budisavljević S, Alemán-Díaz AY, Carai S, Kuttumuratova A, Jobe LB, Schwarz K, Hülsen V, Lee J, Scott E, Whitehead R, and Weber MW. Child and adolescent health in Europe: towards meeting the 2030 agenda. Journal of Global Health; 11. 2023. DOI: 10.7189/jogh.13.04011
Aceves-Martins M, Alemán-Díaz AY, Giralt M, and Sola R. Involving young people in health promotion, research and policy-making: Practical Recommendations. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2019, Mar 1;31(2):147-153. DOI:10.1093/intqhc/mzy113
Alemán-Díaz AY, Backhaus S, Siebers L, Chukwujama O, Fenski F, Henking CN, Kaminska K, Kuttumuratova A, and Weber MW. Child and adolescent health in Europe: monitoring implementation of policies and provision of services in countries. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 2018, 2(12):891-904. DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30286-4
Alemán-Díaz, AY, Toczydlowska E, Mazur J, Frasquilho D, Melkumova M, & Holmqvist G. Why Income Inequalities Matter for Young People’s Health: A look at the evidence. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Innocenti Working Papers 2016; 2016_06.
Book Chapters
Aceves-Martins M and Alemán-Díaz AY. 2023. Chapter 8: Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Food Insecurity among Children and Adolescents, in: Developed Countries. In McEachern M, Moraes C, and O’Loughlin D. (Eds). Researching Poverty and Austerity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Policy Applications Handbook. Routledge. ISBN 9781032127774.
Whitehead R, Scott E, Alemán-Díaz AY, Carai S, and Weber MW. 2022. Adolescent health in the European Region: policy development and the role of WHO, in: Heinen A, Samue R, Vögele C and Willems H. Wohlbefnden und Gesundheit im Jugendalter Theoretische Perspektiven, empirische Befunde und Praxisansätze (Well-being and Health in Adolescence Handbook). Springer Nature.
Alemán-Díaz AY. Collaborations that work: Lessons from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Chapter in Improving the quality of childhood in Europe. Volume VII. Alliance for Childhood European Network Group; Brussels. 2018.
Policy Documents
A healthy start for a healthy life: a strategy for child and adolescent health and well-being in the WHO European Region 2026–2030. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. 2025.
Situation of child and adolescent health in Europe: Final Report of the WHO European strategy (2015-2020). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. 2023.
‘Nothing about us, without us’ Tips for policy-makers on child and adolescent participation in policy development. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe; 2022.
Adolescents taking the lead: thematic background papers for a multistakeholder consultation to promote adolescent well-being in the WHO European Region, 6–7 July 2021. WHO Regional Office for Europe; 2021. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
Situation of child and adolescent health in Europe. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. 2018. ISBN: 9789289053488.
Inchley J, Currie DB, Young T, Samdal O, Torsheim T, Augustson L, Mathison F, Alemán-Díaz AY, Molcho M, Weber M, and Barnekow V (Eds.). Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people’s health and wellbeing in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study: an International Report from the 2013/14 Survey. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. 2016. ISBN 978 92 890 5136 1.
WHO Regional Office for Europe. Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey data informing policy: country examples Armenia, Germany, Latvia, Sweden, and United Kingdom (Scotland). March 2016. See examples here: https://www.hbsc.org/policy-impact/
Talks
Lessons from the European Child and Adolescent Health Strategy to inform the monitoring process for the Action Plan for Sexual and Reproductive Health: towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Europe. WHO Regional Office for Europe Partnership Meeting. (2018, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Monitoring the health of European children: results from the baseline survey. (2017, Edinburgh, Scotland)
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study: main activities, opportunities, and challenges. (2012, Berlin, Germany)
Adolescent Health Policy in Practice: Tools to Achieve Health Equity and Justice for Adolescents. (Organized With Dr. Andricus Hutcherson and Dr. Krishna Upadhya). (2018, online)
Adolescent mental well-being and European policy: a case for increased advocacy (2016, Cadiz, Spain)
The role and use of WHO Collaborating Centres to support the development of the HBSC study (2014, Tirana, Albania)
Panels convened
Adolescent Mental Well-being: from research to public policies’ symposium. (2016, Cadiz, Spain). Organized Panel with Dr. Alina Cosma.
Launched and organized the Adolescent Health Track on behalf of the Health Behaviour in Schoool-aged Children (HBSC) study and WHO Collaborating Centre for Adolescent Health Policy with the EIP Secretariat. (2015-2019)
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