Syllabus

Course Code: DWS-6    Course Name: Women Health and Environment

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Conceptualizing Women's Health, Health as a Gender Issue, Health as a Human Rights Issue, Status of Women's Health in India and Haryana, Maternal Morbidity, Maternal Mortality, Infant Mortality, Life Expectancy, Fertility
2 Access to Health Care Services: Maternal and Child Health Services in India and Haryana, Food and Nutrition, Anaemia, Pre-natal Care, Menstrual Hygiene, Factors Influencing Women’s Health
3 Women's Reproductive Rights and Population Control, National Population Policy, National Health Policy, HIV and AIDS Control Programme, International Conferences on Women and Health: Focus on ICPD, Cairo and Beijing Platform for Action
4 Environment and the People - Areas of Concern: Land and Water Management, Dams, Urbanization, Deforestation, Pollution, Soil Erosion, Water Logging, Deforestation, Environmental Degradation; India's Environmental Policies: Impact on Women
5 Ecological Movement: Conflict over Natural Resources and Women; Theory and Practice of Eco-feminism in India; International Conferences on Environment: Focus on Agenda 21 of the Rio Conference, World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002
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