TY - JOUR AU - Jacobs, Tanya AU - George, Asha PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/29 TI - Democratic South Africa at 25 – a conceptual framework and narrative review of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health JO - Globalization and Health SP - 35 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Twenty-five years into South Africa’s constitutional democracy provides an opportunity to take stock of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health. Those born in democratic South Africa, commonly known as the ‘Born Frees’, are perceived to be able to realise equal rights and opportunities, yet many factors constrain their lives. In bringing together approaches to understanding context in health policy and systems research and the social determinants of health, the paper develops a conceptual framework to guide the narrative review examining the key contextual social and structural determinants of adolescent health in South Africa. Illustrative examples drawing from 65 papers from public health and the social sciences describe and link these determinants across micro, meso and macro levels of society, their global determinants, and their intersections with compounding axes of power and inequality. SN - 1744-8603 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00679-3 DO - 10.1186/s12992-021-00679-3 ID - Jacobs2021 ER -