1Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, SMS&R, Sharda University, Greater Noida
2Associate Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, SMS&R, Sharda University, Greater Noida
3Students of MBBS 2012–13 Batch, SMS&R, Sharda University, Greater Noida
*Corresponding author: Dr. Deepika Agrawal, Associate Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Knowledge Park 3, Greater Noida. E mail: deepikasudhanshu@gmail.com
Online published on 16 January, 2016.
Urban slums in India are a neglected community as far as public facilities are concerned. There is no health infrastructure since such areas are largely illegal and unauthorised to start with and therefore, the community cannot utilize the social security schemes as well, that are meant for the economically weaker sections of the country.
To generate health awareness among the slum adolescents and make them economically independent.
summer workshop was conducted for a period of one week by the MBBS students in the urban slum of Bhangel. Two groups of slum adolescents were recognised. Health awareness sessions were conducted for these children everyday on one or the other relevant health topic along with teaching them some vocational skills.
on comparing the pre and post workshop assessment, the results were encouraging. Conclusion: Marked improvement was observed in the knowledge levels and livelihood promotion.
Urban slums, health awareness, workshop, vocational skills, adolescents
