Abstract
Background: According to World Health Organization, adolescents constitute about one fifth of the world population, and in India they constitute about 21% of the total population. Most of the surveys show that health status of adolescent girls is at sub-optimal level.
 Objectives: To assess nutritional status and morbidity pattern among the adolescent girls and to suggest measures for improvement of health status of adolescent girls.
 Method: A community based cross-sectional study was carried out among 250 adolescent schoolgirls in Rural and urban field practice area of Jhansi school from January 2017 to July 2014.
 Results: Among the various morbidities eye problem was seen in maximum no of adolescent girls. Eye problem was present in 44.8% of adolescent girls followed by respiratory 14.7% and ear 13.06% disease. Skin disease was present in 3.2% of adolescent girls, which was more in rural girls 6.7% than in urban girls 1.7%, may be due to better hygienic practice in urban schoolgirls.
 Conclusions: Rural background, low socioeconomic status, illiteracy, birth rate and order, income and number of members in a family have shown to be significant determinants of morbidity pattern in the adolescent girls.
 Keywords: Adolescent, anemia, morbidity, vaginal discharge.
Highlights
WHO defines Adolescence as the segment of life between the ages of 10-19 years.[1,2] Twenty five percent of adult height and up to fifty percent of adult weight are attained during adolescence.[3]
Skin disease was present in 3.2% of adolescent girls, which was more in rural girls 6.7% than in urban girls 1.7%, may be due to better hygienic practice in urban schoolgirls
In India adolescents account for 21% (Approximately 230 million) of the total population among which the adolescent girls comprise about 10.3% of the total population of India.3,4Twenty five percent of adult height, and up to fifty percent of adult weight are attained during adolescence
Summary
WHO defines Adolescence as the segment of life between the ages of 10-19 years.[1,2] Twenty five percent of adult height and up to fifty percent of adult weight are attained during adolescence.[3]. In India adolescents account for 21% (Approximately 230 million) of the total population among which the adolescent girls comprise about 10.3% of the total population of India.3,4Twenty five percent of adult height, and up to fifty percent of adult weight are attained during adolescence. The importance of this target group lies in the fact that they are going to be the mothers of tomorrow – whose wellbeing is critically important for improving the nutritional, health and educational status of women in the State.
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