The Health Status of Women in India

Every day, approximately 1000 women die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth — nearly all of these deaths are preventable. Access to family planning is also known to play an important role in reducing maternal mortality. Health services include all services dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease, or the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health. They include personal and nonpersonal health services. Every year, 99% of maternal deaths occur in developing countries. Despite the increase in contraceptive use over the past 30 years, significant unmet needs remain in all regions. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, one in four women who wish to delay or stop childbearing does not use any family planning method. According to WHO, improving access, coverage and quality of services depends on the key resources being available; on the ways services are organized and managed, and on incentives influencing providers and users. This article highlights some of the basic issues of the women community in India and their remedies. The scientific community and the public have become increasingly aware of and justifiably concerned about the health of women and there is consequent increasing demand to evaluate the potential health risk factors of the women community. Health doesn’t mean body/physical fitness it is actually over all well being which includes mental and social fitness too that can be represented by health triangle (Fig 1) thus we can define health as “the measure of our body’s efficiency and overall well being”.