Adolescent Health: Reassessing the Passage to AdulthoodWorld Bank Publications, 1995 M01 1 - 54 pages This paper reviews current data on the health of adolescents in developing countries, with a focus on young women. It assesses regional trends in sexual knowledge, contraception, marriage, fertility, and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Issu |
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Page 21 - the boys never meant any harm against the girls. They just wanted to rape.
Page 38 - due consideration given to the role, rights and obligations of parents and changing individual and cultural values. Suitable family planning information and services should be made available to adolescents within the changing
Page vii - family planning services, multiservice centers for youth, outreach programs (particularly important for reaching ‘street kids' and other marginalized young people), and communications. To reach adolescents, it is important to use appropriate spokespersons and messages, which require testing, and to identify the target population's preferred media formats.
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Page 21 - year earlier, were more likely to have used drugs and alcohol, and were less likely to practice contraception.
Page 19 - programs and use them, their health and their chances of delivering a healthy baby improve to levels almost on a par with those of older women
Page 4 - decreased by three to four months each decade between 1850 and 1950 before leveling off
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Page 38 - Governments are urged to ensure that adolescents, both boys and girls, receive