Prioritizing reproductive health: Can it be the real game changer for India?

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• 作者：Pradyumna Kumar Mishra^a ; ^{pkm_8bh@yahoo.co.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Nirmal Kumar Lohiya^b
• 关键词：Reproductive health ; Millennium development goals ; Sustainable development goals ; Population policy ; Indian health system
• 刊名：Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January-June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：2
• 期：1
• 页码：1-3
• 全文大小：248 K

文摘

For an over-burdened economy, such as India, reproductive health challenges are enormous to meet population demands. Successive governments through promotion of best policies and practices have reinforced this national priority, but failed to overcome pragmatic impediments even after sixty-eight years post-independence. The link between population dynamics and sustainable development has been jeopardized by a number of structural and social issues. Despite meeting several millennium development goal's target, major reproductive health concerns, such as need for contraception, unsafe abortion services, gender inequality, violence against women, and vulnerability to sexual transmitted diseases including HIV and cancers of the reproductive tract, remain to be vastly improved. Post-2015, a sustainable development agenda presents to India valuable opportunities to not only provide universal reproductive health care but also prioritize efforts to evolve a holistic approach with a strong commitment to discuss, deliberate, and disseminate knowledge and information in reproductive health sciences and medicine.