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A Matter of Life and Death

Vol. 49, Issue No. 3, 18 Jan, 2014

India's maternal mortality rate has declined, but much more needs to be done.

Demand-side Financing and Promotion of Maternal Health

Vol. 49, Issue No. 2, 11 Jan, 2014
Benjamin M Hunter, Indira Chakravarthi, Ramila Bisht, Susan F Murray
Use of demand-side financing has become increasingly common in maternal healthcare and India has been a leading example with large-scale programmes such as the Janani Suraksha Yojana and Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana. This paper undertakes a systematic review of the evidence to consider how demand-side financing has been used and whether there has been any impact on maternal health service utilisation, maternal health, or other outcomes. The findings suggest that a relatively narrow focus on achieving targets has often overburdened health facilities, while inadequate referral systems and unethical practices present overwhelming barriers for women with obstetric complications. The limited evidence available also suggests that little has been done to challenge the low status of poor women at home and in the health system.

How Gender-Sensitive Are Obstetrics and Gynaecology Textbooks?

Vol. 40, Issue No. 18, 30 Apr, 2005
Keerti Iyengar

Several health needs are a result of gender inequity, and care seeking is affected by constraints emerging from gender, social and economic disparities. Gender sensitive provision of health care, especially obstetric and gynaecological services aimed at reducing gender inequity would allow women to overcome social constraints, even empowering them. This is the perspective informing a critical review of three textbooks in the two disciplines. The review aims to explore whether the textbooks sensitise students to the relationship between gender, social inequity and care-seeking behaviour, areas where reproductive rights are likely to be violated by providers, and the special needs of adolescents and older women.

Curious Decision

Vol. 36, Issue No. 28, 14 Jul, 2001

Some things never change. In a typically nonchalant move, ignoring past debate, medical and social facts, the health ministry has recently announced plans to introduce Net En, an injectable contraceptive on a trial basis in select medical colleges around the country. This is, no doubt, is a prelude to introducing it in the public health system, a move that the health ministry has long contemplated but has hesitated to make for a variety of reasons, not least of all, the opposition to it by women's and health groups....

National Population Policy 2000: Re-examining Critical Issues

Vol. 36, Issue No. 16, 21 Apr, 2001
Devaki Jain, Mohan Rao

With many states now having evolved and announced state population policies, there is a need to examine their links with the central policy and also to take a closer look at the experience of implementing the policy. While there has been some change in the content of the policy the blinkered vision on population and people's needs continues to be evident.

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