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In the modern age, the affluent and middle class is a steadily growing population where a minority of even five percent of the population means over 40 million people (Gopalan 1996). In this group, there is an emergence of changes in life styles, value systems, occupational patterns and dietary habits. These are reflected in over nutrition, which is leading to steep escalation in incidence of degenerative disorders like coronary heart diseases, obesity and diabetes mellitus. These chronic degenerative disorders are being expressed as public health problem especially in urban areas.Studies by...

Traditional bases of social stratification such as caste and class reproduce themselves in womens lived experiences as also do rural-urban and regional disparities. New needs emerge as women progress through the life cycle. Talking about womens health and access to healthcare in such a complex setup thus poses a challenge. The girl child in India is increasingly under threat. In recent decades, there has been an alarming decrease in the child sex ratio (0-4 years) in the country. Access to technological advances of ultra sonography and Indias relatively liberal laws on abortion has been...

Approximately 2 million adolescent women in developing countries undergo unsafe abortions each year,3 and a third of all women seeking hospital care for abortion complications are under age 20. For young women who undergo unsafe abortion, short-term health problems can include infection or injuries from the procedure itself, such as a perforated uterus, cervical lacerations or haemorrhage. Keeping in mind this, present research was conducted to know the adolescents attitude towards Family Planning & Birth Control (FPBC).

In India, it has been found that majority of the parents marry off their daughters in their adolescence. Moreover, until recently, India had one of the lowest female literacy rates in the world. (Census, 1981). All these factors considered together imply that in many parts of India a large number of young girls with low literacy levels get married during their early adolescence. Their lack of adequate knowledge about sexual matters and contraception results in early pregnancies and sexual disharmony.Adolescents in rural areas may face trouble due to lack of right kind of information regarding...

HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are having devastating effect on the health of the adolescents, particularly girls and young women. HIV/AIDS among children and adolescents is frequently the result of sexual and gender based violence, of rape, sexual relations with HIV positive partners, prostitution and sexual slavery. The majority of the newly infected people with HIV/AIDS are young people below 25 years in age (NACO, 1996).The National Family Health Survey indicates that amongst girls in the age group of 13-19 years, the knowledge of STDs and HIV/AIDS is low.Keeping in mind...