Dr. Pranjal Nigam
Adolescents experience rapid physical, cognitive and psychosocial growth. This affects how they feel, think, make decisions, and interact with the world around them.
28. • Adolescent vaccination is almost non-existent in India’s Universal
Immunization Program (UIP) .
• Till very recently, the only disease targeted for prevention among the
adolescents and adults was tetanus.
• However, with the recent launch of Measles-Rubella vaccination
campaign three more diseases, i.e. measles, rubella and diphtheria have
joined tetanus as the vaccine preventable diseases targeted for
prevention and control amongst adolescents.
• Japanese encephalitis vaccine is also offered to adolescents and adults,
but only in endemic districts of few states.
29. • Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) is having a separate adolescent
immunization schedule that comprises of three broad categories,
namely
1. Mandatory - HPV and Tdap
2. Catch-up - MMR, Varicella, Typhoid, Hepatitis B and A and
Tetnus toxoid
3. Special circumstances - Influenza, Japanese Encephalitis (JE)
and Rabies
30. TT booster at 10 and 16 yrs age
TT dose at 0, 1month and 6-12 month
then booster every 10yrs
HPV- <15yrs age – 2 dose schedule
at 0 and 6-12 months
>15yrs age – 3 dose schedule
at 0, 1-2months and
6months
Rabies – Essen regimen – 5 dose regimen
1 dose on days 0, 3, 7, 14, 28
Zareb regimen – 4 dose multisite
regimen – 2 dose on day 0 one at
each deltoid, 1 dose on day 7 and 21.
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34. • Laws on drinking age, alcohol concentration, seat belt and helmet use Implementation and
enforcement of laws banning violent punishment, criminalizing sexual abuse, limiting
youth access to firearm and other weapons
• Community and individual interventions to promote behavioural change
• Pre-hospital and hospital care of adolescents who present with unintentional injury
• Response and support services like counselling
and therapeutic approaches, programmes for
juvenile offenders, Fostercare intervention
46. JUVENILE JUSTICE ACT
THE CHILDREN ACT,
1960
The law stressed the need
for
Care, Protection,
Maintainance,
Welfare, Education,
Training
And Rehablitation of
neglected
Or Deliquent child
JUVENILE JUSTICE (CARE AND PROTECTION
OF CHILDREN) ACT, 2000
It is focused on prevention and treatment of
Juvenile delinquency and provide framework of
Protection, treatment and rehabilitation of children
In purview of juvenile justice system.
Highest penalty was 3yrs.
JUVENILE JUSTICE ACT, 2015
Rajya sabha passed the amended
Juvenile Justice bill in which
teenagers of age 16-18 will be
tried as adults in heinous crimes
