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The Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) was launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on January 7, 2014, to promote the holistic development of 253 million adolescents in India. Its objectives include improving nutrition, enabling sexual and reproductive health, enhancing mental health, preventing injuries and violence, preventing substance misuse, and addressing non-communicable diseases. The program employs various strategies such as community-based interventions and social behavior change communication to achieve its goals.

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RKSK

The Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) was launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on January 7, 2014, to promote the holistic development of 253 million adolescents in India. Its objectives include improving nutrition, enabling sexual and reproductive health, enhancing mental health, preventing injuries and violence, preventing substance misuse, and addressing non-communicable diseases. The program employs various strategies such as community-based interventions and social behavior change communication to achieve its goals.

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RASHTRIYA KISHOR SWASTHYA KARYAKRAM

-Pavani 11C
INTRODUCTION

In order to ensure holistic development of adolescent population,


the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched Rashtriya Kishor
Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) on 7th January 2014 to reach out to
253 million adolescents - male and female, rural and urban,
married and unmarried, in and out-of-school adolescents with
special focus on marginalized and undeserved groups . The
programme expands the scope of adolescent health programming
in India
OBJECTIVE

• Improve Nutrition
• Enable Sexual & Reproductive Health
• Enhance Mental Health
• Prevent injuries and violence
• Prevent substance misuse
• Address conditions for NCDS
IMPROVE NUTRITION

• Reduce the prevalence of malnutrition among


adolescent girls and boys (including
overweight/obesity)
• Reduce the prevalence of iron-deficiency
anaemia (IDA) among adolescent girls and boys
ENABLE SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH
Improve knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, in
relation to SRH
• Reduce teenage pregnancies
•Improve birth preparedness, complication
readiness and provide early parenting support for
adolescent parents
ENHANCE MENTAL HEALTH

• Address mental health concerns of


adolescents
PREVENT INJURIES AND VIOLENCE

• Promote favourable attitudes for preventing


injuries and violence (including GBV) among
adolescents
PREVENT SUBSTANCE MISUSE

• Increase adolescents' awareness of the


adverse effects and consequences of
substance misuse
ADDRESS CONDITIONS FOR NON-COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES (NCDS)

• Promote behaviour change in adolescents to prevent NCDs


such as cancer, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases and
strokes The strategy is operationalised through six key
components i.e. Communication (including Social and
Behaviour Change Communication for improved health
seeking behaviour); provision of commodities; provision of
services; capacity building; monitoring & evaluation and
programme management including supportive supervision
STRATEGIES

• Community Based intervention


• Facility Based Intervention
• Convergence
• Social and Behaviour Change Communication
7CS AND SIX STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
THANK YOU

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