Social Determinants of Urban Indian Women’s Health Status ppt

... Women’s reproductive health in slum populations in India: evidence from NFHS-3. Journal of Urban Health. 7(2):264-77. Social Determinants of Urban Indian Women’s Health Status Jyotsana ... Meeting of Senior Officials & Ministers of Health Summary Report, Johannesburg, South Africa 19-22 January. WHO (2005). Commission on Social determinants of health. Action on the Social Determinants ... Determinants of health: Learning from previous experiences. The background paper prepared for the first 110 Shukla: INDIAN WOMEN’S HEALTH meeting of the Commission on Social determinants of health. WHO.Geneva.2005....

... systematicproblems with women’s health. Indian women have high mortalityrates, particularly during childhoodand in their reproductive years.The health of Indian women isintrinsically linked to their status ... Bank, 1996). All of thesefactors exert a negative impact onthe health status of Indian women.Poor health has repercussions notonly for women but also theirfamilies. Women in poor health aremore ... manyserious health concerns, this profilefocuses on only five key issues:reproductive health, violenceagainst women, nutritional status, unequal treatment of girls andboys, and HIV/AIDS. Because of the...

... Women and Alcohol: A Women’s Health Resource may be downloaded from: Healthy Choices in Pregnancy websitewww.hcip-bc.orgPrint copies of this Women and Alcohol: A Women’s Health Resource may ... asking for more general information about the effects of drinking alcohol on women’s health. This booklet broadens the scope of much of the current FASD prevention materials to include alcohol ... Information Sheet 1 - Making connections: women’s experience of violence and substance use problems. 2007, British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health: Vancouver, BC.18. Testa, M.,...

... Department of Health, Vermont Injury Plan 2001.24National Women’s Health Information Center. Office of Women’s Health. www.4women.org.25Office of the Surgeon General. Mental Health: A Report of the ... NotesReferences1Misra, D, ed., Women’s Health Data Book: A Profile of Women’s Health inthe United States, 3rd edition. Washington, DC: Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and The Henry J. Kaiser ... 2010 goal. Women’s Health Status Report‘02Vermont Department of Health December 2002Vermont Department of Health • 108 Cherry Street • P.O. Box 70 • Burlington, Vermont 05402www.HealthyVermonters.infoVermont...

... 111Uptofourracialgroupscouldbechosen.Respondentswhoidentifiedthemselveswithmorethanoneracialgroupwereaskedtoselectonegroupthat‘‘bestdescribes’’them,andtheRACErecodereflectedthisresponse.Becauseoflimitedsamplesize,Asian,PacificIslander,Alaskannative,andAmericanIndianwomenwerecombinedandpresentedinthisreportas‘‘Non-Hispanicother’’races.+Comparisonwithbirthcertificatedata—Thedataintable6ofthisreportshowthatfortheyears1991–94,theNSFGestimatesofthenumberofbirthsareveryclosetothebirthcertificatetotals,bothoverall,forindividualyears,andforbirthstowhitewomen.TheNSFGestimatesaresomewhatlowerforblackwomenandsomewhathigherforwomenof‘‘other’’racesthanthebirthcertificatedata.Thesedifferenceslargely(withinsamplingerror)canceleachotherout.Butthedataintable6suggestthatsomewomenwhoreportthattheyareof‘‘other’’races(AsianorPacificIslander,orAmericanIndianorAlaskannative)inasurveyliketheNSFGmaybeclassifiedaswhiteorblackbyathirdpartyfillingoutabirthcertificate.Inaddition,somewomenwhoidentifywithmorethanoneracialgroupmayidentifythemselvesprimarilywithaparticulargroup,butathirdpartymaynotchoosethatracialgroupifaskedtoclassifythembyrace.Theseissuesdonotappeartoaffectthecomparabilityofthetotalnumberofbirthsbyyearorothercharacteristics,whichshowverygoodagreementbetweentheNSFGandtheregisteredbirths.+InterpretationofdatabyraceandHispanicorigin—DataareshownbyraceandHispanicorigininthetablesbecauseNCHSisfrequentlyaskedtoprovidedataseparatelyforwhite,black,andHispanicwomen.Raceisassociatedwithanumberofindicatorsofsocialandeconomicstatus.Measuresofsocioeconomicstatus(forexample,educationandincome)arenotalwaysavailableforthepointintimewhentheeventbeingstudiedoccurred.Whilecharacteristicssuchaseducationandincomecanchangeovertime,raceandethnicitydonotchangesotheycanbeusedatallpointsintimeasproxiesforsocioeconomicstatus.Differencesamongwhite,black,andHispanicwomeninthephenomenapresentedinthetablesprimarilyreflectthelowerincomeandeducationallevelsofblackandHispanicwomen,theirmorelimitedaccesstohealthcareandhealthinsurance,thecommunitiesinwhichtheylive,andotherfactors(seereference14,tables49,53,81,173).Forsomerecentanalysesofdifferencesinbirthratesbyraceandorigin,seereferences1,15,40,and41.ReasonsforHIVtest—Allrespondentswhoreportedthattheyhadeverhadtheirbloodtestedforhumanimmunodeficiencyvirus(HIV),thevirusthatcausesAIDS,wereaskedthereasonsfortheirmostrecenttest.Theresponselistwasasfollows:+forahospitalizationorsurgicalprocedure+toapplyforhealthorlifeinsurance+becauseyouwerepregnantorbecauseitwaspartofprenatalcare+justtofindoutifyouwereinfected+becauseofareferralbyadoctor+otherreason(specify)Table86showsthepercentscitingspecificreasons,withthepercentsaddingtomorethan100becausesomewomengavemorethanonereasonfortheirHIVtest.Reasonsforsterilizingoperations—Table54showsreasonsreportedfortuballigations,hysterectomies,andvasectomies.Foreachofhersterilizingoperations,therespondentwasasked:‘‘NowpleaselookatCardD-3whichlistssomereasonsthatwomensometimesgiveforhavingsterilizingoperations.Whichreasonorreasonsdoyoubelieveareclosesttoyourown?’’Womencouldchoosealloftheapplicableresponsesfromthefollowinglist:+Youhadallthechildrenyouwanted+Yourhusbandorpartneratthetimedidnotwantanymorechildren+Financialreasons,thatis,youcouldnotaffordanotherbaby+Medicalreasons+Reasonsrelatedtobirthcontrol+SomeotherreasonsforsterilizationThosementioning‘‘medicalreasons’’wereasked:‘‘PleaselookatCardD-4.Whichofthesemedicalreasonsdidyouhave?’’Theresponselist,againpermittingallapplicablereasonstobecoded,readasfollows:+Medicalproblemswithyourfemaleorgans+Pregnancywouldbedangeroustoyourhealth+Youwouldprobablyloseapregnancy+Youwouldprobablyhaveanunhealthychild+Someothermedicalreason(specify)Thosementioning‘‘reasonsrelatedtobirthcontrol’’intheoriginalquestionwereasked:‘‘Wasyourmethodofbirthcontroldangeroustoyourhealthordidyounotlikeyourmethodofbirthcontrolforotherreasons?’’Womenreportingmorethanonereasonfortheirsterilizingoperationwereaskedtoidentifytheirmainreason.Reasonsforvasectomies—Womenwereonlyaskedaboutreasonsforvasectomyifhercurrenthusbandorcohabitingpartnerhadhisvasectomyduringtheirrelationship.Thequestionsaskedaboutreasonsforvasectomyweregenerallysimilartothoseaskedforfemalesterilizationoperations.Theexceptionwasthatintheresponselistformedicalreasons,‘‘medicalproblemswithyourfemaleorgans’’wasreplacedwith‘‘HEhadahealthproblemthatrequiredtheoperation.’’Regionofresidence(atinterview)—TheREGIONrecodeclassifiesregionofresidenceattimeofinterviewintothefourmajorcensusregions:Northeast,Midwest,South,andWest.ThesePage112[Series23,No.19 ... that listedresponse options for type of providerand method of payment. For type of provider, the options listed were clinic,private doctor’s office or health maintenance organization (HMO), ... Title X-fundedfamily planning clinics in the country,provided by the Office of PopulationAffairs (OPA) of the Department of Health and Human Services, as well asother publicly funded family planningclinics...

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... http://www.texastribune.org/texas -health- resources/reproductive -health/ whats -status- womens -health- program/ 6 Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Letter to Cindy Mann, CMS., Aug. 20, 2012. 7 Office of the Governor ... abuse”.) 38 Planned Parenthood of Ind. v. Comm’r of the Ind. State Dep’t of Health, No. 1:11-cv-630-TWP-TAB (S.D. Ind. June 24, 2011) (Statement of Interest of the United States, p. 9-10). ... Shin, PhD, MPH Department of Health Policy School of Public Health and Health Services George Washington University October 11, 2012 20pays 90% of WHP cost. Whether the state...

... cause of ill health in women to a multiplicity of factors including biological, social, cultural, environmental and economic. These factors influence women’s health status, their need of health ... nature of society and the oppression of women. For many years, women have argued for an understanding of a social view of health, highlighting the links between health status and the social ... Principles of Women’s Health Care Women’s Health NSW aims to provide a strong independent public voice on women’s health and wellbeing from a feminist, wholistic perspective that values women’s...

... al. e health risks of smoking. e Framingham Study: 34 years of follow-up. Annals of Epidemiology, 1993, 3:417–424.100. US Department of Health and Human Services. e health benets of smoking ... more immediate health e ects of women’s smoking, such as adverse reproductive outcomes.Most of what is known about the health e ects of tobacco is based on the smoking of manufactured cigarettes, ... descriptions of some of the toxic e ects of handling tobacco,7,8 there has been little study of the health e ects of employment in tobacco production on women; for example, e ects of such...

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