Sandip Chakraborty

Adolescents and Youth Health in India: Morbidity and Care Seeking Sandip Chakraborty

Health researchers hypothesize that it is the youth period of life when a person feels healthy than his/her rest of life. But a careful look into health problems faced by adult reveals that roots of many problems in the adult stage are mainly found in the adolescence and youth phase. Here the health status, health service provision and cost of medical care services among the Young in India have been analyzed and discussed extensively. This study is completely based on the enquiry on ?Morbidity and Health Care? conducted in 42nd round (1986-87), 52nd round (1995-96) and 60th round (2003-04) of National Sample Survey Organisation.