This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality.

Infanticide has been practiced in all continents, but little dependable primary data exist on this subject. Presented here are the findings on female infanticide for a rural, south Indian population.

The Indian Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act came into force in 1972, in response to the high mortality and morbidity associated with illegal abortion. However, 25 years on, both restrictions in the law and the way it is implemented through service delivery have failed to meet the aborti

The number of maternal deaths that take place every day in India exceeds the total number of such deaths that occurs in all developed countries in a month.

In India, under the influence of various socio-cultural factors, a large number of parents marry off their daughters during adolescence. [1] In many traditional and conservative societies, sex is still considered taboo and sexual matters are generally not discussed in the family.

In 1978, the Bangladesh family planning program launched a national program of outreach services that continues to the present. Young married women were hired and trained to visit women in their homes, offer contraceptive services, provide information, and support sustained use over time.

Following the International Population and Development Conference in Cairo, there is widespread consensus in the international community that family planning programs must be people-centered, and further, that family planning programs should focus not just on contraception per se,but on the repro

A major challenge under the new RCH approach is operationalising the paradigm shift to a comprehensive and integrated program into reality.

Every society has its own traditional beliefs and practices related to health care. Beliefs in supernatural powers, i.e.

An extensive literature exists on the determinants of fertility behavior in developing countries, and how these determinants may constrain demand for family planning services.