1. Reproductive Health

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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

According to the world Health Organization (WHO), reproductive health means a total well being in all aspects of reproduction i.e, physical, functional, emotional, behavioural and social. A Society will be considered ‘reproductively health’ when the people have physically and functionally normal reproductive processes and normal emotional and behavioural interaction among themselves, in all sex related aspects.

India was amongst the first countries in the world to initiate action plans and programs at national level to attain total reproductive health as a social goal. These programmes called ‘family planning’ were initiated in 1951. Improved programmes covering wider reproduction related areas are currently in operation under the popular name “Reproductive and child Healthcare (RCH) programmes” .RCH programmes has three goals- Reproductive health, child care and fertility regulation programmes such as Janani Suraksha Yojana (for promoting institutionalized deliveries), massive child immunization, supply of nutritional food to the pregnant women etc are some examples of important healthcare programmes. In India infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate are high. Reproductive health problems remain the leading cause of death and disease in the people.

Source: Science and Technology, Dr BRAOU

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