Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Adolescent Health - Sik district

Adolescent Health

Vision
- adolescent will enjoy peaceful and quality life with knowledge and skills for healthy behavior

Mission
- prepare whole and optima health services and enough support for adolescent, through increase in awareness, knowledge, skills and cooperation between agencies and societies and active involvement of adolescent in planning and implementation of health services.

Objective
- planning and preparing health services for all the adolescent include physical, mental, social and spiritual for healthy behaviors direction.

Specific objective
- support the spirit of formation of adolescent group with encouragement of healthy and responsible lifestyle.
- Prevent the social problems due to risky behaviors by promoting the healthy lifestyle and preparing appropriate care for health
- Encourage active participation of adolescent in activities with health promotion and prevention.

Definition

Adolescent can be categorized into
: early adolescent stage – 10 to 14 year old
: middle adolescent stage – 15 to 17 year old
: late adolescent stage – 18 to 19 year old


Adolescent health services:
- promotion and education about adolescent health
- screening for adolescent health
- treatment for adolescent
- Counseling
- Reference services

Other optional services :
- activities
- counseling for adolescent diet
- focus group counseling or family counseling
- promotion of adolescent health like exhibition, seminar, camp, etc
- adolescent club, health club, PROSTAR, etc

Services provided by the health clinics:
- Growth and development
- Diet
- Mental
- Sexual and reproductive
- Risky behaviour
- Physical



SKR form (Borang Saringan Kesihatan Remaja)

SKR-1 for male
SKR-2 for female

This form is used to identify the adolescent problems which related to diet, growth, mental, sexual and reproductive, accident risk, smoking, alcohol and drug usage among adolescent.

This screening is done at least 3 times according to the categories mentioned above due to each stage there will be different emotional and behavior problems which tend to change with time.

- Opportunistic screening in health clinics
- Periodically screening in school





Flow chart of the process of main job in adolescent health services







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