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WOMEN HEALTH & NUTRITION [1]

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: 
UNIT I
1. Role of Women in National Development 
• pre and post-independence 
• present scenario
 
2. 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
 
11.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II
3. Women as a reproductive unit
4. Girl child and gender bias 
5. Family planning
• Definition 
• Health aspects 
• National population policy 
• Fertility regulating methods
• Post- conceptional methods
6. National Family Welfare Programme 
 
10.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
7. Women’s nutritional requirements and food need throughout lifecycle
8. Special Care during certain physiological conditions (mental- social support and food fads and myths )
• Menarche
• Pregnancy 
• Lactation
• Menopause
9. 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)
7.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
10. 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
 
8.00
Unit V: 
UNIT-V
11. 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: 
Books Recommended: 
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
Academic Year: 
2014-2015 [2]

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