New perspectives for multidisciplinary and integrated strategies of adolescents health and wellbeing

In this chapter, a new approach on well-being and health of adolescents is discussed. Actually, diet and exercise represent the cornerstone of the health projects and policies to improve health status in adolescents. However, starting from the concept that health is a complex phenomenon of tangled factors, the integrated and multidimensional approach includes variables belonging to 4 main domains, that is lifestyle habit, social context, emotional status, and mental skills. This approach aims to define a large and personalized health and well-being profile of the adolescent, providing the opportunity to adopt intervention strategies to improve or definitely change fragilities and strengthen robustnesses. The population of this project consists of healthy adolescents. This is an important point of this project in the optic of primordial prevention which object is to improve well-being and health in healthy subjects in order to reduce incidence of chronic degenerative diseases.