Adolescents: A key pivotal in India’s Health Strategy

Adolescents constitute more than 20% of India’s population. There has been an increasing need of inculcating health practices in this age group through different channels to unleash their true potential. Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Adolescent strategy is a key program, already in progress in the health sector, under the aegis of National Health Mission. Through this article, the authors share brief statistics about the existing health and the disease spectrum among adolescents, the existing portfolio of health interventions within the ambit of reproductive and child health and the role that all of us could play in facilitating healthy sexual development of adolescents and leveraging their energy for the benefit of our fellow citizens and thus making them an active partner to reduce Maternal, Neonatal and Infant mortality