Nutritional Needs Of Adolescents

Adolescent health, also called as youth health is detecting the health problems in youngsters and treating them. The adolescent health problems are the major health problems now a days. Youngster’s health is often complex and it needs a comprehensive and permanent cure. Many young people engage themselves in risky behaviours that negatively affect their health which leads to the majority of health problems and some are psychosocial. Many multiple problems are experienced by youth. These behaviours are established as a young person and go on to become the lifestyles of adults leading to chronic health problems. Some important factors are Social, cultural and environmental. Youngsters are changing their habit of living, eating, sleeping etc in the name of modernisation which is affecting their health negatively. Young people have specific health problems and developmental needs that differ from those of children or adults: The causes of ill-health in adolescents are mostly psychosocial rather than biological. Young people often engage in health risk behaviours that reflect the processes of adolescent development experimentation and exploration using drugs and alcohol, sexual behaviour, and other risk taking that affect their physical and mental health. Adolescent health also encompasses children's and young people's sexual and reproductive health (SRH).