What Is Sexual And Reproductive Health Promotion? What Are Sexual Health Issues? How Sexual And Reproductive Health Status Can Be Improved?
Volume 1 - Issue 4, October 2017 Edition
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Author(s)
Dr. Ahmad Hassan, Dr. Maqsood Ahmad, Dr. Khalid Mahmood
Keywords
Sexual & reproductive health, health promotion, sex education, sexual health issues and sexual health improvement strategies.
Abstract
Paper discusses the sexual and reproductive health issues which are common and important strategies to improve the sexual health status. In reproductive health, markers demonstrated generally high maternal and newborn mortality rates, a high and rising rate of sexually transmitted diseases and high premature birth rates in the low commonness of preventative use. Inside this lopsided weight of sick health certain populace gatherings are at specific danger. To start with and of most noteworthy worry among these gatherings is the teenagers. A huge extent of the prompted premature births in the youthful gathering; the expansion in sexually transmitted disease (STDs) influences the gathering to an expensive degree (1, 2 and 3). Undesirable pregnancy is normal, with its chaperon dangers of actuated fetus removed and obstetric confusions. There is a high rate of viciousness against the ladies, including rape. Ladies in creating nations and financially burdened ladies in the urban areas of some modern countries endure the most astounding rates of complexities from pregnancy, sexually transmitted sicknesses, and reproductive diseases. Absence of access to complete reproductive consideration is the principle reason that such a large number of ladies endure and kick the bucket. Men additionally experience the ill effects of reproductive health issues, most strikingly from sexually transmitted infections. However, the number and extent of the dangers are far more noteworthy for ladies for various reasons (2, 4 and 6).
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