REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (Chapter-2)

Reproductive health according to world health organisation

According to WHO reproductive health means a state of total well being in all aspects of reproduction i.e physical, emotional, mental, and social. (well being of the individual)

Reproductively healthy society

A society with people having physically and functionally normal reproductive organs and normal emotional and behavioural interactions among sex related aspects might be called reproductively healthy

A Programme introduced by india for reproductive health

Family planning programme in 1951

Reproduction related programmes are in operated under

RCH (Reproductive and child health care programme)

Statutory ban of sex determination programme

The process of amniocentesis is ban in india for sex determination due to increasing menace of female foeticides

Amniocentesis process

It is performed by taking some of the amniotic fluid from the developing embryo and analyse the fetal cells and dissolved substances for the presence of certain genetic disorder

Amniocentesis test benefits

It is used to test the presence of certain genetic disorder such as - Haemophilia, down syndrome, sickle cell anaemia …etc.

oral contraceptive for the females

Saheli

SAHELI contraceptive pill

This pill was discovered at (CDRI) Central Drugs Research Institute in lucknow, India