Health Strategies and Interventions in Adolescents for Future Reproductive Health

This book is a concise guide to the diagnosis and management of reproductive health issues in adolescents that may lead to future fertility problems.Beginning with an overview of female adolescence and reproductive development, the following chapters cover different disorders including PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), endometriosis, anaemia, menstrual abnormalities, teenage pregnancy and abortion, STIs and more.Each section provides step by step guidance from history taking, signs and symptoms, and clinical examination, to diagnosis and therapy.A complete chapter covers the 2012 POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act.Key pointsConcise guide to reproductive health issues in adolescents, subsequently leading to fertility problemsDiscusses investigation, diagnosis and management of numerous disordersCovers POCSO Act 2012Includes clinical images and figures to assist learning