Assessing Reproductive Health of Women-a case study of Gwalior (M.P)

Abstract

Almost all women experience motherhood at some point of time and this is where she bears extremely high risk to her life. Out of all the maternity related deaths in the world, it is estimated that 20% deaths occur in India. If we specifically talk about Madhya Pradesh, it is considered to be low performing state in terms of health indicators i.e extremely unsafe for delivering child.

In this paper, the success stories and some of the challenges to the reproductive health of women are highlighted. Mostly the social barriers like caste issues and gender bias depriving women their right to good health is presented here. The paper is based on empirical findings at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh and it is believed that the successful practices can be replicated elsewhere too.