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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India: Self-care for Universal Health Coverage
This book is a very important addition to the extensive range of research and writing that Dr. Saroj Pachauri has contributed to the knowledge and intervention strategies concerning health issues in India and Asia. The book focuses on developing greater depths of scientific data and new programmatic strategies for sexual and reproductive health in especially marginalized, vulnerable sub-groups—female sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people, and long distance truck drivers. As evident in the title of the book, the primary theme is the up-scaling of self-care practices, particularly among the most vulnerable sub-populations in India. Dr. Pachauri states: “The COVID-19 pandemic currently raging through India and other countries vividly underscores the importance of self-care interventions. All the methods to prevent this infection such as hand washing, social/physical distancing, and wearing masks are self-care interventions. Without a vaccine to prevent this infection, individuals and communities are reliant solely on self-care practices.” These most vulnerable sub-groups are especially at risk because of their exposure to a variety of different, unpredictable sexual encounters, and also their relatively weak and unstable economic and social resources. In addition, these sub-groups generally have low levels of knowledge concerning the pathways and risks of sexually transmitted infections and related health problems, along with (frequently) a serious lack of connections to reliable, effective health providers.
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Keywords
- Adult education
- Condom Use Practices
- Educational Administration
- Educational policy
- Educational technology
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Higher Education
- HIV and AIDS
- Human reproduction, growth & development
- LGBTQIA+
- Marginalized and Vulnerable Communities
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- open access
- Open and Distance Education
- Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences
- Public health & preventive medicine
- Reproductive Medicine
- School Education
- Self-care Practices
- Self-initiated Care
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- Social groups
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sustainable development goals
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MF Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences::MFK Human reproduction, growth and development::MFKC Reproductive medicine
- Universal Health Coverage
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4578-5web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-4578-5
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