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How has women's health become a matter of great concern in India? Explain.
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Women's Health-A matter of great concern in India.
Women suffer many disadvantages as compared to men in the areas of education, participation in economic activities and healthcare.
(i) The deterioration in the child sex ratio in the country from 927 in 2001 to 914 in 2011 points to the growing incidence of female foeticide.
(ii) Close to 3,00,000 girls aged below 15 years are not only married but have already borne children at least once.
(iii) More than 50 per cent of married women in the age group of 15-49 years have anaemia and nutritional anaemia caused by iron deficiency, which has contributed to 19 per cent of maternal deaths.
(iv) Abortions are also a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in India.
Women suffer many disadvantages as compared to men in the areas of education, participation in economic activities and healthcare.
(i) The deterioration in the child sex ratio in the country from 927 in 2001 to 914 in 2011 points to the growing incidence of female foeticide.
(ii) Close to 3,00,000 girls aged below 15 years are not only married but have already borne children at least once.
(iii) More than 50 per cent of married women in the age group of 15-49 years have anaemia and nutritional anaemia caused by iron deficiency, which has contributed to 19 per cent of maternal deaths.
(iv) Abortions are also a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in India.
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