The adolescent health program aims to promote optimal physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health among adolescents. It does this through increasing health awareness, changing behaviors, and creating supportive environments. Adolescence is defined and characteristics of different generations - Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z - are outlined. The importance of adolescent health is discussed as this life stage faces general health problems like malnutrition and mental health issues. Specific problems mentioned are anemia, obesity, eating disorders, depression, early and unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies and disease. The program adopts the acronym ADOLESCENT to focus on adopting healthy lifestyles, developing appropriate strategies, organizing youth-friendly activities, providing life skills

1. ADOLESCENT
HEALTH PROGRAM

2.  HEALTH- can be defined as optimum physical,
emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health.
Health promotion is the science or art of helping
people change their lifestyle to move towards a state
of optimal health. Lifestyle change can be facilitated
through a combination of efforts to increase
awareness, change behaviour, and create
environments that support good health practices.
DEFINITION OF TERMS

3. ADOLESCENCE

4. Which Generation do you Belong?

5.  resistant towards current trends
 48% listening to radio
 well researched purchase decision
 career driven
 62% reading newspaper
 time ------ more in work
CHARACTERISTICS:
Gen X - 1965-1979 – BABY BUST

6. CHARACTERISTICS
GEN Y – 1980 – 1995 – MILLENEALS
Thinking outside the box
Living trendy
grown up with
technology
24/7 online
Express feelings and
thoughts
Spenders

7.  GEN Z – 1996 – DIGITAL NATIVES
-express themselves with their own style
-tend to travel more -demand 24hrs access to
internet
-Connected yet isolated
-savvy( ability to make good
judgement/knowledgeable)
but anxious(afraid/nervous)
Characteristics

8. What is the importance
of adolescence health?

9. Problems of Adolescence

10.  General Health Problems
 Malnutrition
 Inadequate diet
 Anemia ; most important
o For Adolescents 15-19 years anemia {mild-39.1}, {Mode 14.9} &
{Severe – 1.7}
 Obesity and eating disorders. Extreme eating disorders like bulimia
and anorexia
 Mental Health Problems Depression is common
 Early and unprotected sex
 High number of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions and
steep rise in HIV infection
Problems of Adolescence

11. A – doption of healthy life style
D - evelop appropriate i.e. strategy discourage early marriage and
teenage pregnancy
O – rganize adolescent/youth friendly
L – Ife skill training, legal support, liason with peers, parents
E – ducate about sexuality, safe sex, spirituality, responsible
parenthood
S – afe,secure and supportive environment to be provided
C – ounselling/curriculum in school inclusive of family life education
E – nable and empower for responsible citizenship
N – etworking for experience sharing
T – raining for income generation, teen, clubs

12. IMPORTANT REMINDER!