PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Dougal S Hargreaves AU - Bhanu Williams AU - Fiona Straw AU - Anna Gregorowski AU - Arrash Yassaee AU - Delan Devakumar TI - Fifteen-minute consultation: public health for paediatricians—adolescent public health AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-309890 DP - 2016 Oct 01 TA - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition PG - 258--263 VI - 101 IP - 5 4099 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/101/5/258.short 4100 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/101/5/258.full SO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed2016 Oct 01; 101 AB - Paediatricians have a key role to play in ensuring a holistic, integrated approach is taken to meeting adolescent health needs. There is increasing evidence that failure to do so can lead to poor healthcare experience, avoidable ill health and increased need for healthcare services, both in the short term and in adult life. This article aims to guide paediatricians in answering the questions ‘How well are the public health and clinical needs of the adolescent population in my area being met? And how can we improve?’