Reproductive Health of Women in Urban Slums of Bombay

Abstract

In the last decade, several international and national movements have focused their attention, on the long neglected areas of women's reproductive health. Community based research in India has made it evident that the reproductive morbidity is not confined to special clinic based population but it is instead widespread within the community at large. This paper addresses the nature and prevalence of gynecological and related morbidity's in the urban slums of Mumbai India. It also outlines multifactorial determinants that affect the prevalence of the disease conditions and presents policy recommendations passed upon the experience of the author of working in the field of community health which can better meet the needs of women and their families in the developing world.