Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights In India

Author : Saroj Pachauri,Ash Pachauri,Komal Mittal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811645785

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India by Saroj Pachauri,Ash Pachauri,Komal Mittal Pdf

This open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and vulnerable communities. Case studies and personal narratives are used to share their perspectives and experiences, sources of information for self-care products, motivations for self-care, and challenges and outcomes. Self-care provides the way to reach the last mile in achieving universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. Issues related to stigma, discrimination and violence among these communities are highlighted. Changes in policies and programs to improve their sexual and reproductive health, education and employment are discussed. The last chapter in the book examines how the agenda on self-care can be advanced in the years ahead. The audience for this publication includes health professionals, researchers, those managing health institutions and service providers.

Author : Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015063156908

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Looking Back, Looking Forward by Shireen J. Jejeebhoy Pdf

"The last decade has witnessed many changes in the sexual and reproductive health situation in India. The policy and programme environment has undergone a significant shift from a narrow target-oriented family planning approach to a broader orientation that stresses sexual and reproductive health and choice. There have also been changes in the context of sexual and reproductive health. Some changes, such as declining infant mortality, increased access to skilled attendance at delivery, and declining unmet need for contraception have been positive. Other trends are disturbing, such as stagnating levels of maternal mortality, the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) notably HIV, the persistence of wide gender imbalances and the limited exercise of reproductive rights by many, particularly women. Moreover, the decade has raised concern about the unique sexual and reproductive health needs of the young. It has also seen the absorption of new technologies into everyday sexual and reproductive life. Finally, while the need for a rights-based approach has been recognised, this has not been reflected in terms of government's accountability in the realisation of health rights. In short, despite the strides made on several fronts, India continues to face a situation of considerable sexual and reproductive ill health and lack of informed choice. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the reproductive health and rights situation and highlights major programmatic challenges and directions for policy-relevant empirical research on sexual and reproductive health in India.realisation of health rights. In short, despite the strides made on several fronts, India continues to face a situation of considerable sexual and reproductive ill health and lack of informed choice. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the reproductive health and rights situation and highlights major programmatic challenges and directions for policy-relevant empirical research on sexual and reproductive health in India."

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241564989

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Sexual Health, Human Rights and the Law by World Health Organization Pdf

This report demonstrates the relationship between sexual health, human rights and the law. Drawing from a review of public health evidence and extensive research into human rights law at international, regional and national levels, the report shows how states in different parts of the world can and do support sexual health through legal and other mechanisms that are consistent with human rights standards and their own human rights obligations.

Author : Sarah Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030280989

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Reproductive Health in India by Sarah Hodges Pdf

Within the scholarly fields of demography, development studies, medical anthropology and public policy, the history of reproduction has been dominated by preconceived and often a-historical ideas about India s supposed long-term trend towards over-population. When these scholarly fields have invoked histories of fertility and contraception, these histories have largely been made to serve as the pre-modern antithesis to a fully modern future. In contrast, this volume brings together historians to tackle the complex questions of reproduction in modern India. Taken together, these essays interrogate the very idea that reproduction is simply a linch-pin for effecting other social and economic transformations. Instead, these histories map out and ask questions of the institutions, discourses and practices by which women's reproductive health came to hold meaning and play strategic roles in the multiple and at times competing agendas such as social reform, the medical sciences, cultural nationalism, and colonial public health.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789241549998

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Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV by World Health Organization Pdf

he starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As women living with HIV face unique challenges and human rights violations related to their sexuality and reproduction within their families and communities as well as from the health-care institutions where they seek care particular emphasis is placed on the creation of an enabling environment to support more effective health interventions and better health outcomes. This guideline is meant to help countries to more effectively and efficiently plan develop and monitor programmes and services that promote gender equality and human rights and hence are more acceptable and appropriate for women living with HIV taking into account the national and local epidemiological context. It discusses implementation issues that health interventions and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights.

Author : Michael A. Koenig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Reproductive health
ISBN : 9798131601043

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Reproductive Health in India by Michael A. Koenig Pdf

Transcript of papers presented during a three-day meeting organized by King Edward Memorial Hospital Research Centre (Pune) and the Johns Hopkins University in Feb. 2000; includes issues of sexual health, adolescent reproductive and sexual health, maternal health, male reproductive health, domestic violence, and reproductive health seeking behaviour.

Author : Maya Unnithan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429878763

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Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics by Maya Unnithan Pdf

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups. Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of a vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realised. A compelling analysis, this book offers both new empirical data and new theoretical insights. It draws together the practices, experiences and discourse on fertility and reproduction (childbirth, infertility, loss) in Northern India into an overarching analytical framework on power and gender politics. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, gender studies, human rights and sociolegal studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Birth control
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123518495

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Women of the World by Anonim Pdf

The Center for Reproductive Rights report, Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives - South Asia, is the first extensive examination of laws and policies that influence women s reproductive health in five countries of the region - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The report, which is based on three years of research, is the result of a collaborative partnership between the Center and leading nongovernmental organizations in the region. It offers advocates and policymakers a broad view of the laws and policies that determine women s reproductive choices in these countries, to enable legal and policy reform and the implementation of norms needed to improve women s health and lives. The report is a resource for those interested in advancing and protecting women s reproductive health and rights through legal advocacy and establishing state accountability for violations of reproductive rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fertility
ISBN : 8122412947

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Sexual and Reproductive Health by Anonim Pdf

"Proceedings of an International Conference on Reproductive Health organised jointly by the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility and the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction in Mumbai, India"--T.p. verso.

Author : Wendy Chavkin,Ellen Chesler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 081353657X

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Where Human Rights Begin by Wendy Chavkin,Ellen Chesler Pdf

Brings together eight wide-reaching and provocative essays that examine the practical and theoretical issues of reproductive health policy and implementation. This book assesses the impact of policies that have been initiated and consider future directions that governments must take in order to translate visionary ideas into actual achievements.

Author : Mr̥ṇāla Pāṇḍe
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 0143029428

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Stepping Out, Life and Sexuality in Rural India by Mr̥ṇāla Pāṇḍe Pdf

A Journey Into The Lives Of Women Consider The Following: Eleven Out Of Twelve Abortions In India Are Illegal. The 2001 Census Showed A Decline In The Number Of Females Per Thousand Males In The Most Literate And Prosperous States, Especially In The 0-5 Age Group. The Private Sector Has More Doctors And Fewer Beds Than Government Hospitals, Thereby Emphasizing Outpatient Care. And While Indian Traditions Sanctify Fertility And Motherhood, Government Policies And Health Care Services Are Focused On Controlling Fertility. These Are Some Of The Paradoxes Of India S Health Care System Mrinal Pande Encountered When She Set Out On Her Journey Across Several States To Put Together Information On The Health Of Indian Women. She Soon Realized It Could Not Be A Mere Documentation Of The History Of Reproductive Health In India And The State Of India S Public Health Care System. Through Listening To Women S Perspectives On Their Bodies When They Came For Treatment And Conversations With Dedicated Health Workers, She Gained An Insight Into Larger Realities. The Result Is A Patchwork Quilt Of Narratives About Women S Lives How They Are Affected By Their Environment, Their Perspectives On Male And Female Sexuality, The Mystery Of Pregnancy, The Joy Of Birth, The Fear Of Infertility, The Pain Of Backroom Abortions And The Often Bleak World Of Adolescent Girls. Mrinal Pande Also Discusses Important Issues Like The Population Policies Followed By The Government Over Half A Century And The Consequences Of A Welfare State Abdicating Its Obligation To Provide Basic Health Care For All In Its Pursuit Of Globalization And Market Economics. Through It All She Reveals Enormous Faith In The Role Of Non-Governmental Organizations In Providing Better Health Care Services The Dedicated Doctors And Attendants Who Are Making A Difference, Helping Women Step Out From The Dark Bylanes And Silences Of Their Lives To Create A Socio-Cultural Milieu Which Restores Their Basic Dignity And Rights.

Author : Saroj Pachauri,Sangeeta Subramanian Sokhi
Publisher : Population
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110492951

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Implementing a Reproductive Health Agenda in India by Saroj Pachauri,Sangeeta Subramanian Sokhi Pdf

Author : Tafadzwa Rugoho,France Maphosa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811579141

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Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents with Disabilities by Tafadzwa Rugoho,France Maphosa Pdf

This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities. Following the adoption of the UNCRPD, adolescents with disabilities still commonly suffer from widespread violation of their rights particularly concerning sexual and reproductive health – often being viewed as either asexual or hypersexual. Contemporary societies do not readily encourage the participation of these young people in conversations or decision making processes concerning their own sexual and reproductive health. This book delves into such complex issues, critically examining how global communities attempt to teach sexual and reproductive issues to adolescents with disabilities in the modern era.

Author : Maria Isabel Rodriguez,Eszter Kismodi,Jane Cottingham,World Health Organization. Reproductive Health and Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9241506741

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Ensuring Human Rights in the Provision of Contraceptive Information and Services by Maria Isabel Rodriguez,Eszter Kismodi,Jane Cottingham,World Health Organization. Reproductive Health and Research Pdf

These WHO guidelines provide recommendations for programmes as to how they can ensure that human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, while services are scaled up to reduce unmet need for contraception. Both health data and international human rights laws and treaties were incorporated into the guidance. This guidance is complementary to existing WHO recommendations for sexual and reproductive health programmes, including guidance on family planning, maternal and newborn health, safe abortion, and core competencies for primary health care.

Author : Anthony R. Measham,Richard Heaver
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821334484

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India's Family Welfare Program by Anthony R. Measham,Richard Heaver Pdf

The 1995 conference continued the tradition of holding a roundtable discussion related to the subject of the forthcoming annual World Development Report (*), in this case, economies in transition. The conference addressed four themes: redistribution with growth; demographic change and development; aid and development; and fiscal decentralization. Among the articles included in the 1995 proceedings are: - Argentina's Miracle? From Hyperinflation to Sustained Growth. Domingo F. Cavallo and Guillermo Mondino - Inequality, Poverty, and Growth: Where Do We Stand? Albert Fishlow - Government Provision and Regulation of Economic Support in Old Age. Peter Diamond - Is Growth in Developing Countries Beneficial to Industrial Countries? Richard N. Cooper - Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization: A Review of Some Efficiency and Macroeconomic Aspects. Vito Tanzi.