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A Comparative Study on the Health Status of Women in India and Kerala
In every society the women community was not given due attention especially on the health aspect. In most societies, women are the most deprived sections from all the health facilities. They are the most affected groups right from conception to the end of their lives in terms of poor medical care du...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
2015
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005973.pdf |
| Summary: | In every society the women community was not given due attention especially on the health aspect.
In most societies, women are the most deprived sections from all the health facilities. They are the
most affected groups right from conception to the end of their lives in terms of poor medical care
during pregnancy, after delivery as a baby, as a girl, and as a woman. They suffer from poor
nourishment, medical care, education and moral support. Women’s health involves their emotional,
social and physical well being. It is determined by social, political, economic and biological factors.
Health is concerned with qualitative improvement and it is not subject to exact measurement. The
prevalent indices to measure health status are Death Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, incidence and
prevalence of diseases, admission rates of patients to the hospitals, expectation of life and so on.
Among these, mortality and life expectancy is the widely used measure of health status of a
population. Morbidity may be a more useful indicator than mortality because it is related to pain and
sufferings of the people while mortality is a terminal event (Chen, 1990). The commonly used
measure of morbidity is self perceived illness prevalence rate defined as the number of persons per
1000 population reporting illness during the reference period. |
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| Physical Description: | pp.311-316. Vol. 5, No. 5, May 2015 |