In l995, nurses and doctors in many of the public maternity ward in the state of Tamil Nadu in India were routinely inserting IUDs immediately following childbirth and abortions, as part of the target-orientated family, planning policy.
In l995, nurses and doctors in many of the public maternity ward in the state of Tamil Nadu in India were routinely inserting IUDs immediately following childbirth and abortions, as part of the target-orientated family, planning policy.
Undernourished women tend to deliver low birth weight babies (Karmer, 1987) and to have pregnancy complications (Baird, 1947). Perinatal mortality and prematurity rates were found to be high among short statured women (Barros, 1987).
Gender violence causes more death and ability among women aged 14-44 than cancer, malaria, tmffic accidents, or even war.
The quinacrine trials raise a host of questions regarding the safety of this method of sterilization and the methodology used to assess this.
In 1994, ICPD stressed gender equity as a precondition for health and development while affirming the need to address women's subordination in reproductive health programs. However, those responsible for implementing these broad goals still struggle with how to operationalise gender-aware approac
Kipling was paying tribute to the Vicereine who established the Fund associated with her name. This was an organisation which employed medical women (or 'lady doctors') to run a chain of hospitals and dispensaries all over India and Burma.
Reproductive health is not just the absence of disease of the reproductive system. Rather, it covers a whole range of conditions and processes that include healthy sexual development, reproduction and fertility regulation.
The health of the general population as well as specific groups (infants, women, etc) has for long been an important concern for development studies.
Information on abortion is limited and inaccurate especially in the developing world, which has led to several speculations on the prevalence of abortion in this region.