WHO defines Adolescence as the segment of life between the ages of 10-19 years. Adolescence is a transition phase through which a child becomes an adult. It is characterized by rapid growth and development; physiologically, psychologically and socially. 1 85% of them live in developing countries. 2 About one-fifth of India's population is in the adolescent age group of 10-19 years. Adolescents constitute a sizeable proportion of the Indian mothers. In Andhra Pradesh, this segment constitutes approximately 5.03% of the population. The importance of this target group lies in the fact that they are going to be the mothers of tomorrow-whose well being is critically important for improving the nutritional, health and educational status of women in the State. Various base line surveys also revealed that the health, nutritional and educational status of adolescent girls are at sub-optimal level. 33 The scheduled castes and scheduled tribes have been identified as two most ABSTRACT Objective: To study the Morbidity pattern among the adolescent girls in the social welfare hostels for scheduled castes. Study Period: June 2008-May 2009; Type of Study: Descriptive Cross sectional study. Study setting: Social welfare hostels for scheduled caste girls in Nellore city. Participants: 542 adolescent girls Sampling frame: Adolescent girls residing in six social welfare hostels for scheduled caste students in Nellore Variables studied: socio demographic profile, morbidity pattern. Appropriate statistical packages were used to analyze. Results: Majority of the girls were from rural background (83.58%). 35.79% were in middle school, 86% of girls stayed less than five years in the hostel. The major prevalent morbid conditions among girls were Pediculosis 83.21%, Dysmenorrhea 43.6% Dental caries 28.04%, Skin disorders 26.4% Conclusion: Pediculosis, poor personal hygiene and dysmenorrhea were found to have significance across the age groups. High morbidity was found in 11-13 year age group.

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Introduction: Cancer has become one of the ten leading causes of death in India. It is estimated that there are nearly 2 -2.5 million cancer cases at any point of time. Cancers of oral cavity and lungs in males and cervix and breast in females account for over 50%of all cancer deaths in India. Objectives: 1.To study the socio-demographic profile of patients attending a district level cancer hospital. 2. To study the pattern of cancers in male and female study subjects and their risk factors. Material & Methods: A cross-sectional hospital based study was conducted between October2014 -December2014 among 125 patients attending a district level cancer hospital, who were diagnosed and were undergoing treatment for different types of cancers. A pre-designed, semi-structured questionnaire was administered and details regarding their sociodemographic profile, exposure to risk factors, types of cancers, staging and treatment modalities were recorded. Data was entered and analysed using SPSS software21.0 version. Proportions and chi-square calculated to study the different study variables. Results: Out of the125 study subjects, 76.8% were females and 23.2% were males. 60.8% of the study subjects were in the age group of 41-60 years followed by 20.8% in the 6 1-80 years age group. In males, the leading cause of cancer was stomach (24%) and in the females54% suffered from breast cancer.

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