Open AccessImproving adolescent health services across high priority districts in 6 states of India: Learnings from an integrated reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health project
Author(s) -
Rajni Wadhwa,
Nidhi Chaudhary,
Nitin Bisht,
Anil K. Gupta,
Narayan Behera,
Anupam Kumar Verma,
Mona Chopra,
Manish Jain,
Geeta Verma,
Sachin Gupta,
Gunjan Taneja,
Rajeev Gera
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_38_18
Subject(s) - operationalization , reproductive health , psychological intervention , medicine , environmental health , formative assessment , program evaluation , family planning , adolescent health , economic growth , nursing , medical education , psychology , population , political science , public administration , philosophy , epistemology , economics , research methodology , pedagogy
India has been at the forefront of designing adolescent health (AH) policies. The National Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health policy (2006), the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn Child, and AH strategy (2013), and the "Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK)" (2014) have been the critical milestones in this direction. However, despite policies being available, the AH outcomes need improvement through operationalization of focused and need-based AH interventions.