Sexual and reproductive health status in Indian youth: Addressing the needs and their involvement

Type Journal Article - International Journal of Medical and Health Research
Title Sexual and reproductive health status in Indian youth: Addressing the needs and their involvement
Author(s)
Volume 1
Issue 4
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2015
Page numbers 141-148
URL https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ambarish_Rai/publication/286778169_Sexual_and_reproductive_heal​th_status_in_Indian_youth_Addressing_the_needs_and_their_involvement/links/566db99908ae62b05f0b44e2.​pdf
Abstract
In India, the share of the youth population (15-24 years of age) is more than one-fourth of the country. Despite this large chunk of
the productive population being in the 15-24 age groups, the health needs of youth have neither been researched nor addressed
adequately. The objective of this paper is to examine the status of sexual and reproductive health of youth. Youth in India:
Situation and needs, data has been used for this study. Bi-variate and multivariate technique have been used to fulfill the aforesaid
objective. The result shows that the genital infection was three times more likely in female than male. The odds of sexual and
reproductive problem decrease with increases the education. Not working was significantly and positively associated with the
menstruation related problem and anxiety about swapndosh. There is need to execute some youth-centric policy that work to aware
about sexual health with the social participation.

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