The impact of the family planning (FP) programme over the years is showing varying impacts on fertility across regions and population groups in India.

In the last decade, several international and national movements have focused their attention, on the long neglected areas of women's reproductive health.

Childbirth is a normal physiological process, which can become pathological due to the adoption of certain practices and consequently affect the health and survival of the newborn.

There is a growing recognition that gynaecological morbidity is an important health problem among poor women in India.