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TO ASSESS THE PREVALENCE OF ANAEMIA AMONG GIRLS, BETWEEN THE AGE GROUP OF 18-22 YEARS RESIDING IN INSTITUTIONAL RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX

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Ray Suresh1, & 2Supriya Pottal Ray2
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.5.381

Abstract

Girls between the age of 18-22 years is a traditional stage of physical and mental human development generally—between puberty and legal adulthood but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage. According to Erik Erikson, stages of human development for example, a young adult is generally a person between the ages of 20 & 40 whereas an adult is a person between the ages of 13 &19.They account for 1/5 of the worlds’ population and in India they account for 22.8% of the total population Number of adolescence in India particularly girls live under suboptimal conditions marked by poor nutritional status and high level of morbidity and mortality. They are the ones who are potential mothers and future homemakers constitute an important part of our society.

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