Households, kinship and access to reproductive health care among rural Muslim women in Jaipur
Maya Unnithan Kumar
Economic and Political Weekly 34(10/11): 621-630
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0012-9976 Document Number: 526654
The paper presents reproductive health care in the context of women's perceptions and experiences of illness in general as well as in terms of the material, ideological and political dynamics of household, kin and gender relations. The results are presented from a study among Nagori women in Jaipur district, Rajasthan, India, which present information useful in the construction of an appropriate health care package for women. Issues discussed are: menstruation and childbirth, health needs and health care provisions; household context of health needs, work, time, food; kinship and finances in access to health care; women's agency and health care; and concludes focusing on enhancing access and responding to health demands. [No data or year given].