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Subject: Adolescent Girls & Health - Anaemia, Underweight, Obesity
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Source: The State of the World's
Children 2011 - UNICEF
ADOLESCENCE: AN AGE OF OPPORTUNITY
Adolescent Girls & Health
Risks to adolescent survival and
health stem from such causes as accidents, AIDS, early pregnancy, unsafe
abortions, risky behavious as tobacco and drub use, mental health issues, and
violence.
ANAEMIA IS A SIGNIFICANT RISK FOR
ADOLESCENT GIRLS AGES 15 - 19 IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA & SOUTH ASIA
Mali - 68%
Senegal - 66%
Ghana - 63%
Benin - 59%
Congo - 57%
India - 56%
Burkina Faso - 52%
Guinea - 51%
Sierra Leone - 51%
Tanzania - 49%
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UNDERWEIGHT IS A MAJOR RISK FOR
ADOLESCENT GIRLS AGES 15 - 19 IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA & SOUTH ASIA
*India - 47%
*Eritrea - 40%
*Bangladesh - 35%
*Niger - 34%
*Senegal - 34%
*Ethiopia - 33%
*Namibia - 30%
*Chad - 29%
*Cambodia - 28%
*Burkina Faso - 27%
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Obesity is also a growing and
serious concern for adolescents in both industrialized countries and the
developing world.
Among OECD countries, Organizsation
for Economic Co-Operation and Development http://www.oecd.org/countrieslist/0,3025,en_33873108_33844430_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
the highest levels of obesity (2007
data) of adolescents were found in the four southern European countries of
Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, together with the mainly Anglophone nations
of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.(UNICEF: Tracking Progress
on Child & Maternal Nutrition - A Survival & Development Priority 2009,
pp. 12-14.)
WUNRN would be interested in updated
data on underweight and overweight issues for the health of adolescent
girls, and the intersectionality with poverty, displacement, educational
status, climate change crises +
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