Reproductive Health Management

Contents Preface. I. Reproductive and sexual health general 1. Reproductive and sexual health problems provisions and possibilities/Archana Shukla and Ashutosh Srivastava. 2. Reproductive and child health in India achievements and challenges/Madhumita Dobe. 3. Social components and cultural practices influencing motherhood in rural India/B. Nalini. 4. Socio cultural determinants of reproductive health among urban poor women/Vandana Bhattacharya. II. Adolescent health 5. Unmarried adolescent pregnancy/A. Sheelamoni and M.K.C. Nair. 6. Adolescent health issues in the western states of India/N. Audinarayana. 7. Adolescents knowledge about HIV/AIDS in southern states NFHS 2 data analysis/C.P. Prakasam. 8. Reproductive and mental health of married adolescent girls in Visakhapatnam/M.V.R. Raju and N.D.S. Naga Seema. 9. Medical termination of pregnancy among adolescent girls in Kolkata/Amrita Roy Dipankar Guha Roy and Tapas Kumar Bose. 10. Sexual behaviour and reproductive health of unmarried Munda adolescent girls of Ranchi district Jharkhand/Ruby Alambusha and Sulabha Parasuraman. 11. A gynaecologist's perspective of adolescent health/Rahul Sen. 12. Strategies for improving adolescent health for strengthening RCH programme in India/Ranjana Kar. 13. Efficacy of intervention programme in imparting reproductive and sexual health education among adolescents/Sibnath Deb. III. HIV/AIDS 14. Reproduction in women with HIV/AIDS/Bibhuti Saha and Ayesha Chowdhury. 15. Empowering women through advances in HIV prevention The role of microbicides/Seema Sahay. 16. Counseling for reproductive health and HIV/AIDS/Sushma Mehrotra. IV. Family planning methods 17. Family planning in India changing perspectives/A.K. Sharma. 18. Family planning methods and programmes in India/Suresh Sharma. 19. Enhancing family planning services among couples in urban slums of Mumbai findings from an intervention study/Balaiah Donta Dattaram D. Naik Saritha Nair Umesh Iddya and Anil Bandivadekar. 20. Family welfare programme in West Bengal as reflected in the NFHS results/J.N. Pandit. Miscellaneous 21. Health insurance in India an overview/N. Devadasan. 22. Reproductive and sexual health questionnaire (RASHQ)/Swarn Lata and Archana Shukla. Index. This book titled Reproductive Health Management illustrates that it is both an integrated academic domain and a distinct professional career pathway although the subject Reproductive Health (RH) is relatively new. The book provides a rich vein of raw materials that can be used by teachers and students to give life to concepts and theory. The first four chapters define the field show how RH articulates with other domains of sexual health psychology and biomedicine and discuss the significant achievements to date and the difficult challenges ahead of India. The three main sections on adolescent health HIV/AIDS and family planning provide evocative accounts of cultural traditions and recent changes in personal behaviours and informal and formal care that directly impact upon mortality morbidity and quality of life. Overall this book gives a good ground for optimism. The various local studies and the broader comparisons of waves of national statistics reveal solid if sometimes slow progress toward better reproductive health outcomes. The work described in this book would contribute to training in many disciplines like social sciences community medicine and health management. The book would also help the policy makers to have better insight about the issue and to take up evidence based measures. 494 pp.…