Health

KEY PIONTS

·         Total fertility rate (TFR) has more than halved over the last four decades to 2.2 in 2015-16.

·         Replacement-level TFR (2.1) means each generation exactly replaces itself. If TFR is less than 2.1, a population begins to shrink.

·         Twenty-three of India’s states and Union territories are already below this level.

·         But to sustain the progress it achieved in family planning, India need to be more focused on reproductive health.

·         Reproductive health implies that people are able to

a)     have a responsible, satisfying and safer sex life

b)     have the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so

c)      have to be informed and have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of birth control

d)     have access to appropriate health care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth

Suggestions

·         Girls have to be educated. An Educated girl sets off a virtuous chain reaction.

·         Higher literacy leads to delayed marriage, fewer and healthier children, and a corresponding reduction in poverty.

·         Front-line workers need adequate training in reproductive health choices that they can communicate with both men and women.

·         Facilities need to be strengthened in terms of infrastructure, equipment and manpower.

·         There must be easy accessibility of all contraceptives approved in India’s national health plan.

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