Health and Wellbeing of India's Young People Challenges and Prospect
This volume fills a major gap in the evidence base on adolescents and youth in India by bringing together research, policy critiques and programme analyses in an intersectoral and multidisciplinary way. With about 373 million persons between the age
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alth and Wellbeing of India’s Young People Challenges and Prospects
Health and Wellbeing of India’s Young People
Shalini Bharat • Geeta Sethi Editors
Health and Wellbeing of India’s Young People Challenges and Prospects
Editors Shalini Bharat Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Geeta Sethi Centre of Excellence on Adolescents and Youth Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Acknowledgments
A volume of this nature would not have been possible without the valuable contributions of the authors of individual chapters. We acknowledge their hard work and commitment to undertaking rigorous reviews of various thematic streams along with a critical examination of policies and programs for India’s adolescents and youth. We appreciate the contribution of Sahana Mitra to the background research for an overview of the situation of adolescents and youth in India. Alpana Thadani deserves special appreciation for ably supporting us in the preparation of this volume. Finally, we acknowledge the contribution of the United Nations Population Fund for their support to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences-UNFPA Centre of Excellence on Adolescents and Youth. The reviews that form the basis for the chapters of this volume were undertaken as part of the work of the center. Shalini Bharat Geeta Sethi
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Contents
1 Adolescents and Youth: Setting the Context�������������������������������������������� 1 Geeta Sethi and Shalini B
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