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Women and Health: Tradition and Culture in Rural India

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Tradition and Culture in Rural India

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Tradition and Culture in Rural India
ByMridula Bandyopadhyay, Stewart MacPherson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1998
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434129
Pages 229
eBook ISBN 9780429434129
Subjects Area Studies, Social Sciences
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Bandyopadhyay, M., & MacPherson, S. (1998). Women and Health: Tradition and Culture in Rural India: Tradition and Culture in Rural India (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434129

ABSTRACT

First published in 1998, this volume examines how women in general and how the socio-economic and cultural factors affect the health and nutritional status of the mother, reproductive status, utilisation of health services, awareness of health services, health care behaviour, cultural practices associated with childbirth, lactation and more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|44 pages

Maternal and Child Health: Certain Critical Issues

chapter 3|40 pages

Perspectives on Health in India

chapter 4|12 pages

Social Context of Women’s Health in Rural India

chapter 5|20 pages

Utilisation of Health Care Services and Family Planning

chapter 6|24 pages

Pregnancy and Childbirth

chapter 7|14 pages

Cultural Practices and Postnatal Care

chapter 8|18 pages

Health Status of Children

chapter 9|17 pages

Cultural Dimensions of Women’s Health

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