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National Youth Health Survey

National Youth Health Survey
National Youth Health Survey

Publisher

Family Health Bureau

Number of pages

138

Author

Ministry of Health, Family Health Bureau, UNFPA, UNICEF

Publication

National Youth Health Survey

Publication date

01 December 2015

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The overall aim of this survey was to gather information about the behaviours and needs of youth in Sri Lanka aged 15-24 years. The survey attempted to explore their general health conditions, knowledge in relation to physical, psychosocial wellbeing and behaviours and socio-economic and lifestyle factors which promotes substance use, early sexual initiation and experimentation, violence, injuries, food habits, which influence their life and that of families and the country at large.