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Volume 3
Journal of Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
WCGO2019
May 13-14 , 2019
Page 12
Gynecology and Obstetrics
May 13-14 , 2019 Tokyo, Japan
2
nd
World Congress on
Reproductive health of adolescent girls, global challenges
Around 1.2 million population of world is adolescents. They contribute to 16%of global population.
There are 340 million adolescents in South Asia and more than 50% of world’s population of adolescents
live in Asia. As nature and science help adolescents become survivors of risky infancy or childhood and
they march towards adulthood, they face many challenges of right development and right functions.
While even normal physiological functions affect adolescent’s life, there are possibilities of variations /
deviations, trivial too dangerous in the development of reproductive health system, and susceptibility
to various dangers which affect their reproductive and future health.
The concept of health of adolescents, as a special group, characterized by many rapid, interrelated
changes of body, mind, and social relationships is relatively new. Problems related to adolescence are
being put in the agenda of policy makers, health planners and health professionals since recent past. The
way adolescents experience the transition from childhood to adulthood and the advocacies of do and
do not vary widely depending upon socioeconomic and environmental milieu around their lives and
the society they are part. Therefore, the social and cultural recognition of the concept and values during
adolescence vary substantially between populations around the globe. For many girls in developing
countries, the onset of puberty marks a time of heightened vulnerability to leaving school, marriage,
sexual exploitation by relatives, employers, pregnancy, HIV infection, violence and so on. They face,
many such problems related to sexuality, with too little factual information, too little guidance and too
little access to health care. Due to stigma, of pregnancy, honor killings and suicides go on. There are
variations in numbers but teenage pregnancy, safe / unsafe abortions, safe / unsafe births are global
public health problems. Some countries have restricted laws others do not permit induced abortion.
Girls are not immune to other disorders. Gynecological disorders including cancers are not uncommon
with possibilities of major impact on reproduction and their future life.
Ideally adolescents should have significantly lower mortality rates, relative to older and younger age
groups in both developing and industrialized countries. Consideration of mortality rates alone has
resulted in young people being seen as predominantly healthy age group, so are accorded a low priority
for health interventions because traditionally, mortality has been the main health indicator used by health
planners, policymakers, and program managers. However, realities of adolescent’s health are far from it.
More than 33 percent of the disease burden and almost 60 percent of premature deaths among adults
Shakuntala Chhabra
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, India
J Reprod Biol Endocrinol, Volume 3