Sparing Lives : Better Reproductive Health for Poor Women in South Asia

In this context, the overall purpose of this review is to bring attention to the opportunities that five countries in the region - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - have to strengthen and expand interventions to improve the reproductive health of poor women. The specific objectives are: i) to provide an accurate picture of the current status of women's reproductive health, describe the use of reproductive health services and barriers to use, and identify the improvements required to increase their effectiveness and improve health outcomes; ii) to elucidate individual and household characteristics that affect reproductive health status and use of services so that the most important of these can be used to identify women and households with the greatest need for care to achieve better health; iii) to describe a simple and effective approach - decentralized action planning - that can be used widely in all five countries to improve reproductive health service delivery and outcomes, and point to a body of best practices in reproductive health that provides models and lessons for improvements in South Asia; and iv) to strengthen the case for investing in poor women's reproductive health by demonstrating the links between poverty, inequality, reproductive health care and expenditure.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Chatterjee, Meera, Levine, Ruth, Murthy, Nirmala, Rao-Seshadri, Shreelata
Language:	English en_US
Published:	New Delhi: Macmillan India, Ltd. 2008
Subjects:	ABORTION, ABORTION CARE, ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTION, ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, ADOLESCENT GIRLS, ADOLESCENT POPULATION, ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, ADOLESCENTS, AGE OF MARRIAGE, AGED, ANTENATAL CARE, BABIES, BEHAVIOR CHANGE, BETTER REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, BIRTH ATTENDANT, BIRTH RATE, CERVICAL CANCER, CHANGES IN FERTILITY, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD HEALTH CARE, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILD MORTALITY RATE, CHILD MORTALITY RATES, CHILD NUTRITION, CHILD SURVIVAL, CHILD WELFARE, CHILDBEARING, CHILDBIRTH, CIRCUMCISION, CLINICS, COMMERCIAL SEX, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, COMMUNITY HEALTH, CONDOMS, CONTRACEPTION, CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE, CONTRACEPTIVE USE, DIPHTHERIA, DISABILITY, DISCRIMINATION, DISSEMINATION, DRUG USERS, EARLY MARRIAGE, ECONOMIC STATUS, ELDERLY, EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE, ESSENTIAL OBSTETRIC CARE, EXPENDITURES ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, FAMILIES, FAMILY HEALTH, FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL, FAMILY PLANNING, FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION, FAMILY WELFARE, FERTILITY DECLINE, FERTILITY RATE, FERTILITY RATES, FOLIC ACID, FWA, GENDER INEQUALITIES, GOITER, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH EDUCATION, HEALTH INDICATORS, HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, HEALTH MANAGEMENT, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH PROVIDERS, HEALTH SECTOR, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH SYSTEMS, HEALTH TARGETS, HIGH CHILD MORTALITY, HIGH POPULATION GROWTH, HIV, HOME AFFAIRS, HOMEOPATHY, HOSPITALIZATION, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, ILL-HEALTH, ILLNESS, ILLNESSES, IMMUNIZATION, INFANT, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANT MORTALITY RATE, INFANT MORTALITY RATES, INFERTILITY, INFORMATION SYSTEM, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION, INTERNATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING, INTERVENTION, IRON, IUD, LACK OF AWARENESS, LIFE EXPECTANCY, LIFETIME RISK, LIVING STANDARDS, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, MATERNAL DEATH, MATERNAL DEATHS, MATERNAL HEALTH, MATERNAL MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIOS, MEDICAL SERVICES, MEDICINES, MIDWIFE, MIGRANTS, MIGRATION, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, MINISTRY OF HEALTH, MINISTRY OF POPULATION, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, MOTHER, NATIONAL AIDS, NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY, NATIONAL POPULATION, NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY, NEONATAL MORTALITY, NURSE, NURSING, NUTRITION, NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OLD AGE, OLDER WOMEN, ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION, PARAMEDICS, PATIENT, PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, POLIO, POLIO VACCINE, POOR FAMILIES, POOR WOMEN, POPULATION ACTIVITIES, POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT, POPULATION COUNCIL, POPULATION FUND, POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU, POPULATION RESEARCH, POPULATION SECTOR, POPULATION SECTOR STRATEGY, POPULATION STRATEGY, POPULATION STUDIES, POST-ABORTION, POST-ABORTION CARE, POSTNATAL CARE, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, PREGNANCY, PREGNANT WOMEN, PUBERTY, PUBLIC HEALTH, QUALITY OF CARE, QUALITY OF LIFE, QUALITY SERVICES, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTIVITIES, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH COMPONENTS, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH GOALS, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INDICATORS, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROBLEMS, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, REPRODUCTIVE LIFE, REPRODUCTIVE TRACT, REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTION, RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS, RESOURCE MOBILIZATION, RISK GROUPS, RURAL GIRLS, SAFE MOTHERHOOD, SEX, SEX EDUCATION, SEX RATIOS, SEX WITH MEN, SEX WORKER, SEX WORKERS, SEXUAL ABUSE, SEXUAL HEALTH, SEXUALITY, SIBLINGS, SKILLED BIRTH ATTENDANCE, SOCIAL MARKETING, SOCIAL POLICIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SOCIALIZATION, SON PREFERENCE, STATUS OF WOMEN, STIS, SYPHILIS, TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY, TETANUS, TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT, TUBERCULOSIS, UNFPA, UNMET DEMAND, UNSAFE ABORTIONS, UNWANTED CHILDREN, UNWANTED PREGNANCY, URBAN AREAS, USE OF CONTRACEPTIVES, USE OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES, VIOLENCE, VITAMINS, WOMAN, WORKERS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/10371461/sparing-lives-better-reproductive-health-poor-women-south-asia-vol-2-2-main-report https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7845
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