An Early Window of Opportunity for Promoting Girls' Health: Policy Implications of the Girl's Puberty Book Project in Tanzania

Autor/in	Sommer, Marni
Titel	An Early Window of Opportunity for Promoting Girls' Health: Policy Implications of the Girl's Puberty Book Project in Tanzania
Quelle	In: International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 14 (2011), S.77-92 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1529-1944
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Puberty; Females; Adolescents; Physiology; Educational Policy; Participatory Research; Low Income Groups; Information Dissemination; Public Health; Change; Human Body; Knowledge Level; Books; Adjustment (to Environment); English; African Languages; Feedback (Response); Ethiopia; Ghana; Tanzania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pubertät; Weibliches Geschlecht; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Physiologie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Forschungstätigkeit; Informationsverbreitung; Gesundheitswesen; Wandel; Menschlicher Körper; Wissensbasis; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; English language; Englisch; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Äthiopien; Tansania
Abstract	The onset of puberty, and specifically menstruation, is an opportune moment for reaching girls as they transition into adolescence and young womanhood. Despite the importance of this transitional period, the reproductive health community has tended to overlook the onset of menstruation and early puberty in global, national and local policy and practice in low-income countries. This paper will describe one response to this gap in attention, the Tanzania girl's puberty book project, which was developed through participatory research conducted with Tanzanian girls in 2006-2007. An initial pilot distribution and evaluation of the girl's book was followed by sustained efforts with local stakeholders that led to the girl's puberty book being integrated into government level policy in education and WASH in schools, and over 140,000 copies being disseminated. The Tanzania girl's puberty book project has implications for girls' health and education policy across low-income countries, and is being adapted for Ghana, with plans for developing an Ethiopia book in 2012. (Contains 5 figures.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191. Tel: 800-213-7193; Fax: 703-476-9527; e-mail: info@aahperd.org; Web site: http://www.aahperd.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10