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Background: There are strong demographic, public health, economic, and human rights reasons to invest in the health and the development of adolescents. The three critical, overarching concepts in adolescent health programming are universal health coverage, quality of care, and positive development. The Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) Implementation Guidance document has been developed to support the Global Strategy and to provide countries with a basis for developing a coherent national plan for the health of adolescents. Objectives: To map adolescent health patterns among adolescent population in Dubai. Methodology: The study reviewed the available related literature written about health status of the adolescents in Dubai. Five papers published in the period from 2014 to 2016 were summarized. All of them were cross-sectional studies with sample size ranged between 1200 and 1500 individuals. They were conducted in both private and governmental schools in Dubai. Some other data were obtained from the annual report of school health in private school of Dubai 2014-2015. Results: The study showed that Good dietary behavior was only presented in 20.1% of the students. The incidence of unintentional injuries was 297.7/1000, and most of the injuries (88.9%) were mild. This study showed that 16.7% of the study students have had an asthma attack at some point of time with ever complaining of chest wheeze where near three fourths of them complained of this wheeze during the past 12 months prior to the date of conducting the study. The Study revealed that about showed that 0.13% of school children were diagnosed with ADHD and 0.09% were diagnosed with autism. Depressive symptoms study showed that about 17.5% of students have elevated depressive symptoms (95% Confidence Intervals = 15.43-19.57). Conclusion: Adolescent health care services in Dubai still at its earlier stages and suffering from lack of strategy direction, policy, legal, regulatory and ethical standardization, high prevalence of adolescent health related disorders, and significant weakness of adolescent health research agenda, information system and public health interventions. National based adolescent health program needs to be invested in for the medium and long-term action. There is a need to plan for national policies, set effective intervention initiatives and build up a national adolescent research agenda.

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