ADOLESCENT SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAMME-SUCCESSFUL OR NEGLECTED INTERVENTION?

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  • Rajesh Kumar Ankur Yadav

Abstract

School System, Which Respond To The Immediacy Of Information Of Growing Up Years, Can Become Safe And Enabling Spaces. This Is More True Today Than Ever Before, Given The Challenges Of Hiv/Aids, Growing Percentage Of Adolescent Mothers, Unsafe Abortion Etc. Global Evidence Shows That Effective Adolescent School Based Programme Can Reduce The Impact Of These Vulnerable Factors, Yet Coverage Remains Low, Intervention Remain Information Driven And Few Programmes Are Genuinely Participatory. More So, Many Adolescent School Health Activities Or Programmes Are Organized In A Random Manner Limiting To One Or Two Speeches From Experts, Celebrating A Health Day Or Organizing Yearly Health Checkups. Rarely There Is A Continuity Between The Objectives, Activities Organized, Follow Up And Evaluation Of Programme Activities.

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2019-12-30

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Vol. 8 No. 01 (2019): December 2019

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