Tag: adolescents
Investing in health of adolescents is good economics: Experts
Home to 253 million adolescents at present, India is expected to have 297 million adolescents by 2050...................
Govt to focus on making India anemia-free: Union Health Secretary
Ms Preeti Sudan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the IAAH 11th World Congress on Adolescent Health, ‘Investing in Adolescent Health – the Future is Now’, being held in New Delhi.............
NCDs account for higher number of deaths among adolescents in India
The analysis conducted by The George Institute for Global Health shows that for both younger and older adolescent boys and for older adolescent girls, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries are responsible for a higher number of deaths..........