Suchergebnisse

At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, the nations of the world agreed to give special attention to girls' education, women's health, infant survival, and women's empowerment, and to provide comprehensive reproductive health (RH) services to enable couples to achieve their reproductive goals. The government of India launched a reproductive and child health program in October 1997. This book begins a review of the processes underway to operationalize the program. It brings together several important initiatives at various stages of development and examines key policy and program issues based on empirical research and field experience. The authors provide an analysis of the fertility transition; assess the outcome of removing method-specific contraceptive targets that had driven the program for decades; present new methodologies and indicators for monitoring and evaluating a decentralized program; and discuss the resource needs for implementing it. Efforts to forge new partnerships, mechanisms to enhance women's empowerment, advocacy initiatives to make the paradigm shift a reality for India, and services to address reproductive health problems are reviewed. Adolescents and men, neglected by past programs, are brought into the discourse.

This open access book discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of life on a global scale. It analyzes the challenges in the healthcare system during the second wave of COVID-19, such as overstressed human resources in tertiary facilities, lack of trained healthcare workers, and inadequate infrastructure at secondary-level facilities. The book shows that there has been more disruption in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. It presents how the pandemic drove economies into recession and offers a roadmap to advance equality of access to and sustainability of resources. It studies the impact of prolonged lockdowns, which resulted in emotional and mental unrest. It provides a global perspective on the role of the media, including social media, during the pandemic. The authors discuss the unprecedented rise in suicides and the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable groups, such as asylum seekers and adolescents. In addition, contributing authors cover country experiences with COVID-19 in the UK, Taiwan, Ethiopia, Iran, India, and Brazil. The book's multidisciplinary approach makes it an interesting read for academics, policymakers, program implementers, and researchers in sociology, media studies, and medical experts.

Part 1. Responding to the impact of covid-19 on health service delivery -- Chapter 1. Investing in a Resilient and Responsive Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Bulbul Sood) -- Chapter 2. Using Technology to Harness Existing Resources for an Emergency: COVID-19 Response (Mr. Gopi Gopalakrishnan) -- Chapter 3. Unveling the Clinical Face of COVID-19 (Dr. Arti Singh) -- Chapter 4. The Twin Epidemics: TB and COVID-19 in India (Mr. Chapal Mehra) -- Chapter 5. Self-care and COVID-19 in Africa and Asia (Priti Dave) -- Chapter 6. COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Administration in India (Ms. Drishya Pathak) -- Part 2. Impact of covid-19 on mental health, hunger and nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and health financing -- Chapter 7. A Lifestyle Disorder that Spared Nobody: Mental Health and COVID-19 (Ms. Komal Mittal) -- Chapter 8. Malnutrition and COVID-19 in India (Dr. Shweta Khandelwal) -- Chapter 9. Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Young People in India: The Missing Links During and Beyond a Pandemic (Ms.Sapna Kedia) -- Chapter 10. Commentary- Family Planning During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha) -- Chapter 11. Gender Insights into a Unique Threat to Human Development (Ms. Madhubala Nath) -- Chapter 12. Financing for a Resilient Health System in India: Lessons from the COVID Pandemic (Dr. Indrani Gupta) -- Part 3. IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON VULNERABLE POPULATIONS -- Chapter 13. Commentary-"I Just Want To Go Home": What The Lockdown Meant for India's Inter-state Migrants Workers (Ms. Philo Magdalene) -- Chapter 14. From Vulnerability to Resilience: Sex Workers Fight COVID-19 (Ms.Sushena Reza-Paul) -- Chapter 15. Communicating COVID: Learnings and Way Forward (Ms. Nandita Suneja) -- Part 4. Changing Role Of Media And Communications In The Covid-Era -- Chapter 16. Commentary- Relevance of Social and Behavior Change and Communications in the Media on COVID-19 Response (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha) -- Part 5. Experiences of countries that have successfully contained the pandemic -- Chapter 17. Commentary-"Go Ahead, Go Early": New Zealand's COVID-19 Elimination Strategy (Dr. Rashmi Pachauri Rajan) -- Chapter 18. Learnings from Asia (Dr. Saroj Pachauri).

This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons.

Self-care: Concept, Rationale and Framework -- Men Who have Sex with Men -- Understanding Health needs of Transgender -- The Gender Trap: Issues and Evidence -- Female Sex Work Dynamics: Empowerment, Mobilization, Mobility -- Sexual Behaviors of Long Distance Truck Drivers -- The Way Forward.