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Women and Health in India

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INDEX
 Overview
 Gender Bias in Access to Healthcare
 Problems of Women related to Health
 Factors that Determine the Health
Concerns of Women.
 Health Policies for Women in India
 Conclusion

3.
OVERVIEW
 Women's health in India can be examined in terms of multiple
indicators, which vary by geography, socioeconomic standing
and culture
 To adequately improve the health of women in India multiple
dimensions of wellbeing must be analysed in relation to global
health averages and also in comparison to men in India.
 Currently, women in India face a multitude of health problems,
which ultimately affect the aggregate economy’s output.

4.
Gender Bias in Access to
Healthcare
 Gender is one of the main social determinants of health—which
include social, economic, and political factors—that play a major
role in the health outcomes of women in India and access
to healthcare
 Studies have indicated that boys are more likely to receive
treatment from health care facilities compared to girls
 The role that gender plays in health care access can be
determined by examining resource allocation within the household
and public sphere.
 Gender discrimination begins before birth; females are the most
commonly aborted sex in India. If a female fetus is not aborted, the
mother’s pregnancy can be a stressful experience, due to her

5.
Cont...
 Once born, daughters are prone to being fed less than sons,
especially when there are multiple girls already in the household

6.
Health Related Problems of
Women
 Malnutrition and morbidity
 Breast cancer
 Reproductive health
 HIV/AIDS
 Reproductive rights
 Cardiovascular health
 Mental health
 Suicide

7.
FACTORS MALNUTRTION
INADEQUATE
HEALTH
SERVICES
GENDER
DISCRIMINATION
LOW LEVEL OF
EDUCATION
POOR
ENVIRONMENTAL
HYGINE
EARLY CHILD
BEARING
UNSAFE
ABORTIONS
LESS
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY
DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE
ILLITRACY
Factors that determine the health
concerns of women.

8.
Health Policies for Women in
India
 National health mission (NHM), 2005
 National rural health mission (NRHM), 2005
 National urban health mission, 2013
 Reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and
adolescent health (RMNCH), 2013
 Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK),
2011
 Menstural Hygiene Scheme,2005

9.
National Health Mission (NHM),
2005
 The National Health Mission (NRHM) was launched in 2005 with a
view to bringing about dramatic improvement in the health system
and the health status of the people, especially those who live in the
rural areas of the country.
 The National Health Mission (NHM) seeks to provide universal
access to equitable, affordable and quality health care which is
accountable, at the same time responsive, to the needs of the
people, reduction of child and maternal deaths as well as population
stabilization, gender and demographic balance.
 Among the focus areas of NHM, is Reproductive, Maternal,
Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) to address
the major causes of mortality among women and children as well as
the delays in accessing and utilizing health care and services.

10.
Cont...
 the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Maitritva Abhiyan(PMSMA)
has been launched with the intention of ensuring quality
antental care to pregnant women .

11.
National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM), 2005
 NRHM seeks to provide equitable, affordable and
quality health care to the rural population,
especially the vulnerable groups
 The thrust of the mission is on establishing a fully
functional, community owned, decentralized
health delivery system with inter-sectoral
convergence at all levels, to ensure
simultaneous action on a wide range of
determinants of health such as water, sanitation,
education, nutrition, social and gender equality.

12.
 Accredited social helth activist (ASHA) is community
health worker instituted by the government of india’s
ministry of health and family welfare as part of
NRHM.
 ASHAs are local women trained to act as health
educators and promotes in their communities. For
example; giving birth in hospitals, encouraging family
planning(surgical sterilization),treating basic illness
and injury with first aid etc.

13.
Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child
and Adolescent Health (RMNCH), 2013
 RMNCH+A approach has been launches in 2013 and it
essentially looks to address the major causes of mortality
among women and children as well as the delays in accessing
and utilizing health care and services.
 It also focuses on to protect the lives and safeguard the health
of women, adolescents and children and this has been the
driving force for reaching out to the maximum numbers, in the
remotest corners of the country through constant innovation and
calibration of interventions

14.
Janani-Shishu Suraksha
Karyakram (JSSK), 2011
 Government of India has launched the Janani Shishu Suraksha
Karyakaram (JSSK) on 1st June, 2011. The scheme is to benefit
pregnant women who access Government health facilities for
their delivery. Moreover it will motivate those who still choose to
deliver at their homes to opt for institutional deliveries.
 The following are the Free Entitlements for pregnant
women:Free and cashless delivery
 Free C-Section
 Free drugs and consumables
 Free diagnostics
 Free diet during stay in the health institutions
 Free provision of blood
 Exemption from user charges
 Free transport from home to health institutions
 Free transport between facilities in case of referral
 Free drop back from Institutions to home after 48hrs stay

15.
Menstrual Hygiene Scheme
 This programme for promotion of Menstrual Hygiene
combines health education for adolescent girls,
providing a regular supply of sanitary napkins and
enabling other sanitation measures such as access
to water and toilets in schools and in the community
through convergence with other programmes.

16.
Conclusion
 Profound studies reported that women are more sickly and
disabled than men throughout the life cycle.
 It has been suggested that women are particularly
vulnerable, where basic maternity care is unavailable.
 Due to the involvement of biological factors, women are
more prone to sexual exposure of contracting sexually
transmitted infections (STIs), including the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than do men
 Adequate nutrition for women would help them to serve as
productive members of the society to develop the
consequent health generations.
 The government should take necessary and compulsory
policies to improve the literacy rate and quality education as
well as to provide adequate employment opportunities for
women, which might explore positive impact on the women’s
health concerns.

17.
Suggestions
 The government can improve the health status
of women by strengthening and expanding
essential health services as well as by frequent
counselling on safe sex, awareness on
educational and nutritional needs and gender
based violence
 A strong and sustained government
commitment is therefore needed to improve
women’s, health concern.
 Nutrition and health education should be
strengthened via department of health to
improve the nutritional status of mother and
child, which are intimately linked.

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Made by:-
 Sujaan Pandya
 Ayush Hadfield
 Disha Chandani
 Rachna Sharma
 Priyanka Gupta
 Shivangi Meena
 Priyank Parmar

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Bibliograghy
 Nhm.gov.in
 https://nhp.gov.in
 https://mohfw.nic.in
 Women’s health in India: Risk and
vulnerability by T.N. Krishnan

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