Sponsor Area

Infrastructure

Question
CBSEENEC11009543

How has the women's health become a matter of great concern?

Solution

Women constitute about half of the total population in India. They suffer many disadvantages as compared to men in the areas of education, participation in economic activities and health care. There is a deterioration of the child sex ratio in the country from 945 in 1991 to 927 according to the census 2001. It points out to the growing incidence of female foeticide in the country. More than 50 percent of married women, between the age group of 15 and 49 have anaemia and nutritional anaemia caused by iron deficiency, which contributes to 19% of maternal death.