The magnitude of reproductive (Gynecological and obstetric) morbidity among the women residing in the slums of Tirupati, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam cities and their health seeking behaviour in the event of illness, through a rapid survey, so as to inform programme implementer. Resorted to two stage sampling procedure and primary data have been collected from the female respondents who were the residents of the slums of Tirupati, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada and who were married and were in the age group 15-59 years. The data collection from 200 respondents carried out from each city using...

Adolescents are the young people aged between 13and 19 years. It is a transitional age and stage of physical, physiological and psychological development from puberty to legal adulthood. More than 1.2 billion adolescents are worldwide and this indicates that roughly one in every six persons is an adolescent1. About 21 per cent of Indian population is adolescents (about 243 million). They are the future of the nation, forming a major demographic and economic force. They have specific needs which vary with gender, life circumstances and socio economic conditions. They face challenges like...