Abstract
‘Adolescence’ implies the developmental transition from childhood to adulthood, a time period when many important social, economic, biological, and demographic events set the stage for adult life. The study provides an overall synopsis of the health status of adolescent girls in Tamil Nadu, highlights their vulnerabilities and obstacles in accessing opportunities and services. In this study, the authors ascertain information from the latest NFHS-4 (2016) with special focus on three areas namely, the Nutrition, the Sanitation & Hygiene and the Sexual & Reproductive health of adolescent girls. The study emphasizes to explore the innovative strategies for behavioural change by harnessing ICT avenues like Mobile App, in the changing social context of youngster’s lifestyle. Sensitive subjects like Nutrition, Menstruation, Sexual & Reproductive health related facts can be effectively disseminated through Mobile app alerts or SMS – thus, ‘Smartphone’ as an instrument for behaviour change. Adolescent girls in the state face many hindrances and barriers in ensuring positive adolescence outcomes at individual, family, and community level. Hence, the study recommends for a dedicated state sponsored scheme for adolescent girls with proactive role of professional social workers.
Highlights
‘Adolescence’ implies the developmental transition from childhood to adulthood, a time period when many important social, economic, biological, and demographic events set the stage for adult life
The study provides an overall synopsis of the health status of adolescent girls in Tamil Nadu, highlights their vulnerabilities and obstacles in accessing opportunities and services
The study recommends for a dedicated state sponsored scheme for adolescent girls with proactive role of professional social workers
Summary
ABSTRACT ‘Adolescence’ implies the developmental transition from childhood to adulthood, a time period when many important social, economic, biological, and demographic events set the stage for adult life. Adolescence implies the developmental transition from childhood to adulthood, a time period when many important social, economic, biological, and demographic events set the stage for adult life. In Tamil Nadu, the myriad socio-economic and health factors undermine the ability of adolescent girls to lead full and productive lives. This is of particular concern given the sheer number of youngsters—an estimated 17.23% (1.24 Cr) of the state population is aged between 10-19 years (Census 2011). SABLA is a 100% Centrally Sponsored scheme for all inputs except nutrition component which will be on 50:50 shared basis between the Central and State Government
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