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Some Major Health Issues and Concerns Among the Adolescents in Bangladesh: Women’s Perspective
Farhana Ferdous Luna
Abstract

In the world about one-fifth of the population is adolescent. And this potential population faces a lot of physical and mental problems at its adolescence years but it varies country to country or society to society all over the world. In Bangladesh, adolescent girls experience a lot of health issues and concerns that hamper their life, wellbeing and development and it also obstructs the national and global development. In Bangladesh, malnutrition, early marriage, early child birth, illiteracy or lower education, dowry, sexual abuse, violence, lower level communication to mass media, etc. are very common at every sphere of an adolescent girl’s life at a significant level. These problems are highly responsible for demolishing our national development and above all it increases the discrimination against women that conflicts with the CEWAW, MDG and other  national and international goals that target women empowerment. In this article, an attempt has been made to show the real scenario of adolescent girls of Bangladesh in gender perspective.

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