Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi

Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi

Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. Youth face many choices and challenges around these key...

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Main Authors: Hasan, Rifat, Moucheraud, Corrina, Bakilana, Anne
Format: Brief
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
ADOLESCENT
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
EARLY MARRIAGE
FERTILITY
GIRLS EDUCATION
SCHOOL
SKILLS
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24572
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spelling okr-10986-245722021-05-25T08:48:59Z Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi Hasan, Rifat Moucheraud, Corrina Bakilana, Anne ADOLESCENT DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND EARLY MARRIAGE FERTILITY GIRLS EDUCATION SCHOOL SKILLS TEENAGE PREGNANCY Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. Youth face many choices and challenges around these key decisions, such as when to initiate sex, when to marry, when to have children, and whether to engage in risky behaviors- all of which affect their future health and future opportunities. Consequences of these early decisions can have long-lasting effects on adolescents and their communities, potentially increasing public health costs and depleting human capital. This policy brief discusses a situation analysis of adolescent girls in Malawi with respect to these transitions and highlights the challenges they face. Specifically, issues of reproductive health (fertility, maternal health, use of family planning), early marriage, use of family planning, nutrition and risky behaviors are analyzed and presented. 2016-06-21T18:55:18Z 2016-06-21T18:55:18Z 2016-05 Brief http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24572 English en_US Policy Brief: Malawi; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Malawi
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topic ADOLESCENT
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
EARLY MARRIAGE
FERTILITY
GIRLS EDUCATION
SCHOOL
SKILLS
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
spellingShingle ADOLESCENT
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
EARLY MARRIAGE
FERTILITY
GIRLS EDUCATION
SCHOOL
SKILLS
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Hasan, Rifat
Moucheraud, Corrina
Bakilana, Anne
Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi
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description Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle. Youth face many choices and challenges around these key decisions, such as when to initiate sex, when to marry, when to have children, and whether to engage in risky behaviors- all of which affect their future health and future opportunities. Consequences of these early decisions can have long-lasting effects on adolescents and their communities, potentially increasing public health costs and depleting human capital. This policy brief discusses a situation analysis of adolescent girls in Malawi with respect to these transitions and highlights the challenges they face. Specifically, issues of reproductive health (fertility, maternal health, use of family planning), early marriage, use of family planning, nutrition and risky behaviors are analyzed and presented.
format Brief
author Hasan, Rifat
Moucheraud, Corrina
Bakilana, Anne
author_facet Hasan, Rifat
Moucheraud, Corrina
Bakilana, Anne
author_sort Hasan, Rifat
title Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi
title_short Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi
title_full Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi
title_fullStr Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi
title_full_unstemmed Beginning a Family and Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle : Situation Analysis for Malawi
title_sort beginning a family and adopting a healthy lifestyle : situation analysis for malawi
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2016
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24572
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