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Adolescent Girls’ Health in Rural India : A Community-Based Study

28 May 2021

India is home to two million Scheduled Tribes adolescents living in underserved, rural areas. This cross-sectional survey assesses health, nutrition and well-being of adolescent girls in rural Jharkhand, a state with 26% of its population comprising of Scheduled Tribes. The survey aims to identify priorities for community interventions to serve adolescents and their families. It identifies a range of priorities to improve adolescent girls’ health, nutrition and well-being largely in tribal areas of Jharkhand. These include reducing violence, early marriage and undernutrition, as well as improving mental health, knowledge about contraception and school retention. This study can offer insights to program designers/implementers working with the underserved sections of the society. Click here to access the study. 

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Springer Nature
YEAR OF PUBLISHING
2019
AUTHORS
K Rose-Clarke, H Pradhan, S Rath, S Rath, S Samal, S Gagrai, N Nair, P Tripathy and A Prost

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