Adolescent Girls : Awareness, Rights and Reproductive Health
Adolescent Girls : Awareness, Rights and Reproductive Health

Author: N. Chhabra and K. Koradia D. K. Narang

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9788171326075

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The basic approach of this book has been shaped by our own research, professional and personal experience as teachers and researchers. We aimed for a text that includes complexities of adolescent age intervention which will be relevant and useful in bridging a gap between theory and research on adolescent's lives. Proper knowledge imparted during adolescent age has positive impact on the adolescent's development than at any other time in life. It is imperative to maximize both the amount and quality of knowledge that adolescents receive which will ensure a strong foundation for future learning. The text approaches adolescents as a comprehensive, integrated experience, one that takes place through their perception rather than through a formal adult directed approach. The need for parents, caretakers, teachers, who can integrate nature and education, using adolescent's knowledge and perception as the integrators is also highlighted. The text focuses on the awareness needs of adolescents for their reproductive health. Expanded and updated discussions on the sexual issues, rights, current research studies on the impact of intervention on the knowledge and perception have been dealt. The intervention package is prepared which is suitable to the immediate environment, culture, education and age of adolescent girls. It can be useful for training of health workers, teachers and participation of parents. In addition, the content of book highlights the interacting contribution of biology to the development of adolescent girls, explains how the intervention process helps adolescents to utilize reproductive rights for their well being.

Reproductive Health Status of Adolescent Girls
Reproductive Health Status of Adolescent Girls

Author: Kongara Hymavathi

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2015-05-27

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9783659716263

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Women are facing lot of discrimination by their family members, neighbours in the community, peers and teachers at school and society by and large in each and every aspect of their life from before birth to until death in different stages of their life span;this discrimination restricts their growth and development and limits their capacities and capabilities in their public and private spheres of life due to traditional practices, customs and false beliefs are playing vital role in life of girls and women. In this context this book highlights the developmental needs of adolescents, reproductive health problems of Adolescents, various factors influencing the behaviour of adolescent girls, causes and consequences of reproductive health problems of Adolescents, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, initiatives by the Government of India in the form of programmes for promoting the reproductive health of adolescent girls in rural and urban areas with study findings as supporting data along with suitable suggestions for policy makers and implementing authorities to achieve Millennium Development Goals Successfully to build gender friendly society with equit

Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa
Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa

Author: Knut-Inge Klepp

Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Yet many countries do not have adolescent health policies in place and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. The authors of this volume present new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In particular, they make a unique attempt to bring together social and biomedical science and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what does not at the local level.

Reproductive Health Status of Adolescent Girl Students (14-19 Years)
Reproductive Health Status of Adolescent Girl Students (14-19 Years)

Author: Mehar Bano

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9783659157912

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Worldwide interest in adolescent health issues has grown dramatically beginning with the International Year of Youth in 1985 and the World Health Assembly, UNICEF & UNFDA issued a joint statement on reproductive health of adolescents in 1989 to address their problems. The reproductive health of young school adolescent girls has not been fully explored and understood all over the world, more so in developing countries.Lack of information, social taboos, paucity of health services, low level of education and host of other socio-economic & cultural factors have been responsible for this neglected area of research.Consequently, they face a number of problems like anaemia, unsafe abortions, miscarriage, sexual exploitation, increased possibility of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS.An attempt has been made to assess the knowledge, perceptions and practices in relation to reproductive health including menstruation among girls. This book falls short of in providing interventions in the form of audiovisual material regarding reproductive health among the girls and then conducting post test session to assess the impact of interventions.

Reproductive Health in Female Adolescents in an Urban Slum of Mumbai
Reproductive Health in Female Adolescents in an Urban Slum of Mumbai

Author: Prateek Bobhate

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9783659196621

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Adolescents in India represent almost one-third of the total country's population. A large number of them are out of school, get married early, work in vulnerable situations, are sexually active, and are exposed to peer pressure. These factors have serious social, economic and public health implications. Adolescence in girls has been recognized as a turbulent period which signifies the transition from girlhood to womanhood and considered as a landmark of female puberty. Menstruation is regarded as unclean or dirty in Indian society. Although it is a natural process, is linked with several misconceptions and practices which sometimes results into adverse health outcomes in terms of increased vulnerability to reproductive tract infections (RTI). The current study will provide inputs to program managers & health care providers to plan appropriate interventions to tackle the problems prevalent among the adolescent girls.