References
- 1UNFPA.
The Power of 1.8 Billion: Adolescents, Youth and the Transformation of the Future . New York; 2014. - 2Census of India & UNFPA.
A Profile of Adolescent and Youth in India . New York; 2014. - 3Population Council & UNICEF.
Adolescents in India: A desk review of existing evidence and behaviours, programmes and policies . New Delhi; 2013. - 4Aguayo VM, Paintal K, Singh G. The Adolescent Girls’ Anaemia Control Programme: a decade of programming experience to break the inter-generational cycle of malnutrition in India. Public Health Nutrition. 2013; 16(9): 1667–76. DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012005587
- 5Azad India Foundation. Adolescent Health Programme in India.
http://www.azadindia.org/social-issues/adolescent-health-programme-in-india.html . 2017. Accessed March 20, 2019. - 6Vir SC, Nigam AK, Jain R. Weekly iron and folic acid supplementation with counseling reduces anemia in adolescent girls: a large-scale effectiveness study in Uttar Pradesh, India. Food & Nutrition Bulletin. 2008; 29(3): 186–94. DOI: 10.1177/156482650802900304
- 7Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
http://www.healthdata.org/data-visualization/gbd-compare . Accessed March 20, 2019. - 8Sunitha S, Gururaj G. Health behaviours & problems among young people in India: Cause for concern & call for action. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2014; 140(2): 185–208.
- 9UN Women. Global Database on Violence against Women: India.
http://evaw-global-database.unwomen.org/en/countries/asia/india . 2016. Accessed March 20, 2019. - 10
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015–16: India . Mumbai: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) & ICF; 2017. - 11Dasgupta A, Sarkar M. Menstrual Hygiene: How Hygienic is the Adolescent Girl? Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 2008; 33(2): 77–80. DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.40872
- 12Prajapati J, Patel R. Menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls: A cross-sectional study in urban community of Gandhinagar. Journal of Medical Research. 2015; 1(4): 122–5.
- 13Tripathi N, Sekher TV. Youth in India Ready for Sex Education? Emerging Evidence from National Surveys. PLoS ONE. 2013; 8(8):
e71584 . DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071584 - 14Loiaza E, Liang M.
Adolescent Pregnancy: A Review of the Evidence . New York: United Nations Population Fund; 2013. - 15Motihar R. Between tradition and modernity: Controversy in India about the sex education programme in state-run schools.
http://www.bibalex.org/Search4Dev/files/289971/120693.pdf . 2008. Accessed March 20, 2019. - 16Census of India, 2011. Mumbai (Greater Mumbai) City Census 2011 data.
https://www.census2011.co.in/census/city/365-mumbai.html . Accessed March 20, 2019. - 17Subbaraman R, Nolan L, Shitole T, et al. The psychological toll of slum living—an assessment of mental health, disability, and slum-related adversities in Mumbai, India. The Lancet Global Health. 2014; 2(1:S26). DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)70048-3
- 18Government of India. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram. Available at:
http://nhm.gov.in/rashtriya-kishor-swasthya-karyakram.html . 2019. Accessed March 20, 2019. - 19Boyle J, Mattern CO, Lassiter JW, Ritzler JA. Peer 2 Peer: Efficacy of a Course-Based Peer Education Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among College Students. Journal of American College Health. 2011; 59(6): 519–29. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2010.523854
- 20Bandura A.
Social Learning Theory . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1977. - 21Speizer I, Magnani RJ, Colvin CE. The Effectiveness of Adolescent Reproductive Health Interventions in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2003; 33: 324–48. DOI: 10.1016/S1054-139X(02)00535-9
- 22Shackleton N, Jamal F, Viner RM, et al. School-Based Interventions Going Beyond Health Education to Improve Adolescent Health: Systematic Review of Reviews. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2016; 58: 382–96. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.12.017
- 23Fishbein M, Ajzen I.
Belief, Attitude, Intention and Behavior: An Introduction to Theory and Research . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley; 1975. - 24Kim CR, Free C. Recent evaluations of the pee-led approach in adolescent sexual health education: a systematic review. International Family Planning Perspectives. 2008; 34(2): 89–96. DOI: 10.1363/3408908
- 25Chandra-Mouli V, Lane C, Wong S. What Does Not Work in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Review of Evidence on Interventions Commonly Accepted as Best Practices. Global Health Science and Practice. 2015; 3(3): 333–40. DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00126
- 26Balaji M, Andrews T, Phil M, et al. The acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of a population-based intervention to promote youth health: an exploratory study. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2011; 48: 453–460. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.07.029