CHAPTER 4
Reproductive Health
CHAPTER AT A GLANCE
Reproductive Health
- Reproductive health refers to healthy reproductive organs with normal functions.
- As per World Health Organisation (WHO), reproductive health means a total well-being in physical, emotional, behavioural and social aspects of reproduction.
Reproductive Health—Problems and Strategies
Family planning programmes: They were initiated in 1951.
- Government of India initiated action plans and programmes like family planning at a national level to attain total reproductive health as a social goal.
- Improved programmes currently in operation under the popular name ‘Reproductive and Child Health Care (RCH) programmes’.
- Major tasks of these programmes:
- Enhancing understanding ...
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