Women Health & Nutrition (Theory)

Paper Code: 
CND 301
Credits: 
03
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the student

  •  To be acquainted with status of women in family  & society
  •  Understand how various factors influence the health & nutritional status of women
  • Understand how health  of women influence family, community & national development

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Role of Women in National Development
  1. Role of Women in National Development
  • pre and post-independence
  • present scenario
  1. Women in family and community
  • Demographic changes as per the latest census report (2011)
  • Sex ratio
  • Life expectancy
  • Literacy rate
  • Fertility related statistics

Birth Rate, General Fertility Rate, General Marital Fertility Rate, Age-Specific Fertility Rate, Total Fertility Rate, Gross Reproduction Rate, Net Production Rate, Child Women Ratio, Pregnancy Rate, Abortion Rate, Abortion Ratio, Marriage Rate

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Family Planning
  1. Women as a reproductive unit
  2.  Girl child and gender bias
  3. Family planning
  • Definition
  • Health aspects
  • National population policy
  • Fertility regulating methods
  • Post- conceptional methods
  1. National Family Welfare Programme

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Women’s nutritional requirements
  1. Women’s nutritional requirements and food need throughout lifecycle
  2. Special Care during certain physiological conditions (mental- social support and food fads and myths )
  • Menarche
  • Pregnancy
  • Lactation
  • Menopause
  1. Special Care in chronic degenerative diseases (mental- social support and food fads and myths )
  • HIV and AIDS
  • Cancers- breast cancer and cervical cancer

Overview to the funding agencies for the same ( national &  international)

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Policies and Legislation
  1. Policies and Legislations
    • CEDAW ( Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women)
    • WRLH (Women’s Right to Life and Health)
    • Safe motherhood & child survival
    • Ministry of Women & Child  Guidelines
    • Laws  pertaining to rape and female fetiocide

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Empowerment of women

1. Empowerment of women

• Role of education 

• Various national schemes for women  SABLA, IGMSY,IMY, Working Women Hostel, STEP, Swadhar, KSY and BSY.

Essential Readings: 
  1. Park K & Park (2011) Park’s Textbook  of Preventive and Social Medicine. 21st Edition.Banarsidas Bhanot Publications UP, India
  2. Women and Health (2011) Mary IJ, Chidambaranathan C.Pointer Publication , Jaipur.
  3. Bhatia A (2000). Women Devcelopment and NGO’s. Rawat Publications
  4. Women & Society (1995) Women & educational development series-10. Common Wealth Publishers
  5.  Nutrient Requirement and Recommended Dietary Allowances. (2010) ICMR

 

References: 
  1. ACC/SCN Policy Discussion Papers
  2. UNICEF (1994): The Urban Poor And Household Food Security, UNICEF
  3. IDRC (1993): Gender, Health and Sustainable Development.
  4. NFHS Reports.
  5. UNICEF-State of World’s Children
  6. Annual Report of Government of India (National Development)

7.World Health Organization (2010): Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health

8.Gopalan, G. & Kaur ,S. (Editors) (1989).Women & Nutrition in India. Nutrition Federation of India

9.Policy documents,11th Five Year Plan. Ministry of Women & Child, Government of India

10.ICMR Spl.Rep.Ser.No.42. Nutrition for Mother and Child. NIN Hyderabad

 

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