ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Paper Code: 
HFN 144(F)
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
To enhance knowledge about reproductive heath
To provide detail information about family planning
To tell about Outcomes of health Pregnancy and reproductive health
To create awareness regarding programs of safe motherhood   
 
10.00
Unit I: 
UNIT 1
Reproductiveand sexuality
The concept of reproductivehealth
The concept of sexuality
Changing from ICPD andBeyond
FamilyPlanningProgram
Access to contraception
Operations of family planningprogram
Birth spacing Policy
  National Reproductive Health Program
Determinantof ContraceptiveUse
Level and pattern of contraceptive use
Factor determinants of contraceptive use:
Socio-economic characteristic of women
Husband and wife relation
Community factors
 
12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT 2
Outcomes of Unwanted Pregnancy
Unwanted births
Induced Abortion
Health-seeking behavior to terminate pregnancy
Determinants of abortion
Quality of Care Approach to providing Reproductive Health Care Services
 
Perceived of quality of carefrom provider’s and client’sperspective
Component of quality of careprovided
Quality of care models
Review problems in
implementing a quality of care approach
Potential impact onreproductive health outcomesof the shift to a quality of careapproach
 
12.00
Unit III: 
UNIT 3
ReproductiveTract InfectionRTIs
Social network and support
Social impact
Determinant of RTIs
Consequences of RTIs
Health-seeking behavior ofRTIs
Intervention to prevent andtreat RTIs
AdolescentSexuality
Factors determinantadolescent sexual behaviors
Protective factors
School
Family
Gender and Sexuality
Social and culturalconstruction of gender andsexuality
Gender perspective ofreproductive health andsexuality
Reproductive and sexualityRight
 
11.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT 4
Violence against women
Theoretical framework
violence against women
Rape, Sexual harassment,sexual violence
Domestic violence
Determinants andconsequences of sexualviolence in various forms
 
Maternal and Child Health
Overview of Maternal andChild Health in developingCountries
MCH policy and plan up to2010
 
15.00
Unit V: 
UNIT 5
Breastfeeding
Concept
Importance of breastfeeding
WHO Recommendation onBreastfeeding
Baby mother Hospital
Determinant of Mother and Child Mortality
Maternal death: Indicator ofmortality
Infant and children mortality:Indicator of mortality
Factor determinants of MCmortality:
-Socio-economic
-High Fertility
      -Health status
Models of maternal and childSurvival
 
Safe motherhood policies
Concept of safe-motherhood
Component of safemotherhood
Objectives of ANC
Safe delivery
Postnatal care
National Safe-motherhoodProject
 
Essential Readings: 
1. Sexual and Reproductive Health, Ministry of Health. 2003. Sexual and Reproductive Health: A resource book for New Zealand health care organisations. Wellington: Ministry of Health.
2. Adrienne Germain, King K. Holmes, Peter Piot, Judith WasserheitSpringer Reproductive Tract Infections: Global Impact and Priorities for Women’s Reproductive Health
Reproductive Biology  US, 2013
3. Germain, A., Holmes, K.K., Piot, P., Wasserheit, J. Reproductive Tract Infections Global Impact and Priorities for Women’s Reproductive HealthSeries: Reproductive Biology
4. John Bongaarts, John C. Cleland, John Townsend, Jane T. Bertrand, Monica Das Gupta; Family Planning Programs for the 21st Century: Rationale and Design,  , Published 2012
5. Warren C. Robinson John A. Rose; The Global Family Planning Revolution  Three Decades of PopulationPolicies and Programs s Editors THE WORLD BANK Washington, D.C       
6. Cameron Bowie & Eveline Geubbels; Epidemiology of Maternal Mortality in Malawi – 2 nd edition Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, Malawi
7. William Sears M.D. The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning Paperback – 2000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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