Chatterjee, MeeraLevine, RuthMurthy, NirmalaRao-Seshadri, Shreelata2012-06-122012-06-122008https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7845In this context, the overall purpose of this review is to bring attention to the opportunities that five countries in the region - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - have to strengthen and expand interventions to improve the reproductive health of poor women. The specific objectives are: i) to provide an accurate picture of the current status of women's reproductive health, describe the use of reproductive health services and barriers to use, and identify the improvements required to increase their effectiveness and improve health outcomes; ii) to elucidate individual and household characteristics that affect reproductive health status and use of services so that the most important of these can be used to identify women and households with the greatest need for care to achieve better health; iii) to describe a simple and effective approach - decentralized action planning - that can be used widely in all five countries to improve reproductive health service delivery and outcomes, and point to a body of best practices in reproductive health that provides models and lessons for improvements in South Asia; and iv) to strengthen the case for investing in poor women's reproductive health by demonstrating the links between poverty, inequality, reproductive health care and expenditure.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOABORTIONABORTION CAREACCESS TO CONTRACEPTIONACCESS TO HEALTH CAREADOLESCENT GIRLSADOLESCENT POPULATIONADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHADOLESCENTSAGE OF MARRIAGEAGEDANTENATAL CAREBABIESBEHAVIOR CHANGEBETTER REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHBIRTH ATTENDANTBIRTH RATECERVICAL CANCERCHANGES IN FERTILITYCHILD DEVELOPMENTCHILD HEALTHCHILD HEALTH CARECHILD MORTALITYCHILD MORTALITY RATECHILD MORTALITY RATESCHILD NUTRITIONCHILD SURVIVALCHILD WELFARECHILDBEARINGCHILDBIRTHCIRCUMCISIONCLINICSCOMMERCIAL SEXCOMMUNICABLE DISEASESCOMMUNITY HEALTHCONDOMSCONTRACEPTIONCONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCECONTRACEPTIVE USEDIPHTHERIADISABILITYDISCRIMINATIONDISSEMINATIONDRUG USERSEARLY MARRIAGEECONOMIC STATUSELDERLYEMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CAREESSENTIAL OBSTETRIC CAREEXPENDITURES ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHFAMILIESFAMILY HEALTHFAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONALFAMILY PLANNINGFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATIONFAMILY WELFAREFERTILITY DECLINEFERTILITY RATEFERTILITY RATESFOLIC ACIDFWAGENDER INEQUALITIESGOITERGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTHEALTH CAREHEALTH EDUCATIONHEALTH INDICATORSHEALTH INTERVENTIONSHEALTH MANAGEMENTHEALTH OUTCOMESHEALTH POLICYHEALTH PROVIDERSHEALTH SECTORHEALTH SERVICESHEALTH SYSTEMSHEALTH TARGETSHIGH CHILD MORTALITYHIGH POPULATION GROWTHHIVHOME AFFAIRSHOMEOPATHYHOSPITALIZATIONHUMAN DEVELOPMENTHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENTILL-HEALTHILLNESSILLNESSESIMMUNIZATIONINFANTINFANT MORTALITYINFANT MORTALITY RATEINFANT MORTALITY RATESINFERTILITYINFORMATION SYSTEMINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATIONINTERNATIONAL FAMILY PLANNINGINTERVENTIONIRONIUDLACK OF AWARENESSLIFE EXPECTANCYLIFETIME RISKLIVING STANDARDSLOW BIRTH WEIGHTMATERNAL DEATHMATERNAL DEATHSMATERNAL HEALTHMATERNAL MORTALITYMATERNAL MORTALITY RATIOMATERNAL MORTALITY RATIOSMEDICAL SERVICESMEDICINESMIDWIFEMIGRANTSMIGRATIONMILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALSMINISTRY OF HEALTHMINISTRY OF POPULATIONMORBIDITYMORTALITYMOTHERNATIONAL AIDSNATIONAL HEALTH POLICYNATIONAL POPULATIONNATIONAL POPULATION POLICYNEONATAL MORTALITYNURSENURSINGNUTRITIONNUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCYNUTRITIONAL STATUSOLD AGEOLDER WOMENORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTIONPARAMEDICSPATIENTPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENTPOLIOPOLIO VACCINEPOOR FAMILIESPOOR WOMENPOPULATION ACTIVITIESPOPULATION AND DEVELOPMENTPOPULATION COUNCILPOPULATION FUNDPOPULATION REFERENCE BUREAUPOPULATION RESEARCHPOPULATION SECTORPOPULATION SECTOR STRATEGYPOPULATION STRATEGYPOPULATION STUDIESPOST-ABORTIONPOST-ABORTION CAREPOSTNATAL CAREPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGYPREGNANCYPREGNANT WOMENPUBERTYPUBLIC HEALTHQUALITY OF CAREQUALITY OF LIFEQUALITY SERVICESREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTIVITIESREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CAREREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH COMPONENTSREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH GOALSREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INDICATORSREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INTERVENTIONSREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROBLEMSREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICEREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERYREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICESREPRODUCTIVE LIFEREPRODUCTIVE TRACTREPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONRESOURCE ALLOCATIONSRESOURCE MOBILIZATIONRISK GROUPSRURAL GIRLSSAFE MOTHERHOODSEXSEX EDUCATIONSEX RATIOSSEX WITH MENSEX WORKERSEX WORKERSSEXUAL ABUSESEXUAL HEALTHSEXUALITYSIBLINGSSKILLED BIRTH ATTENDANCESOCIAL MARKETINGSOCIAL POLICIESSOCIAL SCIENCESSOCIALIZATIONSON PREFERENCESTATUS OF WOMENSTISSYPHILISTERMINATION OF PREGNANCYTETANUSTRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTTUBERCULOSISUNFPAUNMET DEMANDUNSAFE ABORTIONSUNWANTED CHILDRENUNWANTED PREGNANCYURBAN AREASUSE OF CONTRACEPTIVESUSE OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICESVIOLENCEVITAMINSWOMANWORKERSWorld Bank10.1596/7845