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Promoting Right to Health
Dr V Rukmini Rao
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Current Status The health of Indian Women is linked to
their status in society There is a strong son preference High dowry cost for daughters Women have little autonomy and
decision-making over health related decisions
Poor health results in inadequate child care and affects economic well being of the household
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Women’s Health determined by Fertility to a great extent
High levels of infant mortality combined with the strong son preference motivate women to bear high numbers of children
Numerous pregnancies and closely spaced births result in premature births, low birth weight babies, and also increase the health risk for mothers
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Knowledge of Family Planning While knowledge is universal, only 36%
of married women aged 13 to 49 currently use modern contraceptives
Place of residence, education and religion are strongly related to both fertility and contraceptive use
Fertility rates for highly literate women are 2.2 children while for non literates it is 4
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Knowledge of Family Planning
20% of married women in India either want to delay their next birth or have no more children, they are not able to space their pregnancies
Government programmes push female sterilization – 67%
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Maternal Mortality Rate MMR 2004 – 2006 is 303 in Orissa
compared to 254 in India Developed countries – 4 to 7 These are preventable deaths Main cause lack of access to
health care 37% of all pregnant women
receive no prenatal care
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Maternal Mortality Rate
50% of Illiterate women received no care compared to 13% of literate women
Women in rural areas less likely to receive care – 42%
Urban women – 18% Need to educate women about
the importance of health care for safe child births
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NFHS Data – Child Births
Three quarters of all births took place at home
2/3rds of all births were not attended by trained medical person
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Maternal Deaths related to easily treated problem One in five maternal deaths can be
treated easily Anemia can be inexpensively
treated by iron tablets 50 to 90% all pregnant women
suffer from anemia Sever anemia accounts for 20% of
all maternal deaths
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Violence Against Women is a Health Problem Estimates for dowry deaths are
25,000 a year Increase in reported level of crimes Much of violence is faced at home Rapes go unreported 30% of all reported rapes happen
to girls who were aged 16 and younger
Reported number of incidents of torture increased dramatically
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Alcoholism
Alcoholism is associated with increase in violence against women
Alcoholism socially accepted among adivasi community
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Malnutrition Malnutrition is a serious problem among
Indian women This is made worse by heavy work
demands, child bearing and rearing Increased susceptibility to illness and
consequent higher mortality More than 53% of all girls and boys
under 4 years were malnourished - 1996
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HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS epidemic is spreading rapidly and will increasing affect women’s health
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Action Steps
Basis of good health is good food Ensure household food security Community grain banks Access to government schemes Access to PDS, organizing to monitor Access to NREGA Access to ICDS services
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Action Steps
Organize at district and state level to access and improve services
Self Help Groups to initiate health care mechanisms