Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) –a new maternity benefit scheme - was launched by Govt. of India in April 2005 with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional deliveries by providing cash incentive to beneficiaries as well as promoters
(i) To assess the practice regarding colostrum and prelacteal feeds among rural women (ii) To identify socio - demographic factors affecting colostrum feeding practice.
Obesity is a complex, multi-factorial chronic disease involving genetic, physiological, metabolic, behavioral, psychological and environmental (social and cultural) components.
Obesity is a growing problem in the western as well as developing world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes obesity, which is more common in women
The aim of our study was to determine the percentage of female infertile patients seeking treatment for infertility having Hyperprolactinaemia and to find out an association between the two i.e. Hyperprolactinaemia and infertility.
Obesity is the most common and one of the oldest documented metabolic disturbances in recorded history. The fundamental cause of obesity and overweight is an energy imbalance between calories consumed on one hand, and calories expended on the other hand.
Obesity is increasingly being recognized worldwide as a risk factor during pregnancy. Incidence of obesity in developing parts of world including India is rising.
Overweight and obesity are among the most prevalent nutritional problems in developed and developing countries. This problem is confined not only to adults but also to children and adolescence.
In women, cancer of the breast is the most common incident cancer and cause of death from cancer. Epidemiological studies tentatively and inconsistently suggest that among individual women, high intake of vitamin A, caroteniods, vitamin E, selenium and vitamin C may be protective against breast cancer.
