Tag Archives: Women

Women’s Health: All That Has Changed

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Prayas
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Women end up with TB by inhaling tobacco dust

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Prayas
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Solapur’s 72,000 Workers Who Roll Bidi For 12 Hours Also Have Asthma By Radheshyam Jadhav for Times News Network Pune: Thousands of women who roll bidi in Solapur suffer from occupational hazards like gastrointestinal and nervous problems, throat burning, cough and respiratory problems. They continue to live in dingy shanties in this ‘bidi capital’ of [...]

 
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Women’s Health: All That Has Changed

Posted on November 14, 2011 by gowri_journo

INFORGRAPHICS IN THE GALLERY

 
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Bitter Salt – Women and Work

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dr. R Sukanya

Most of women’s work is invisible and not recognized due to the nature of their informal work in the domestic sector, street vending, seasonal and/or unpaid agriculture work, work based in their homes, sex work. Women constitute more than two thirds of the informal sector and work in exploitative conditions, hazardous work places and unsafe work processes. [...]

 
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A Nation Of Healthy Women

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Deepa Bhasthi
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Sanitation, a much ignored issue, is one of the biggest health determinants for women in India today. Access to a toilet, clean drinking water, hygienic surroundings and sanitary pads are elementary things, the absence of which is widespread, with disastrous health consequences. We profile four initiatives that show how beautifully simple and effective solutions can solve nation-wide challenges.

 
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Bitter Salt

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Aparna Pallavi
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Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh – Common salt, an essential part of everyone’s daily health requirement, causes uncommonly harsh travails for those who manufacture it.

 
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Body And Mind: The Impact Of Gender Violence On Women’s Health

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Anupama Srinivasan

The impact of gender violence – and specifically violence against women – extends beyond what a girl or woman endures today, tomorrow or three months from now. Gender violence affects an individual’s ability to go to school, to enter into a relationship with someone of her/his choice, to go out to work, to earn an income, to use public transport and to be financially independent. The threat of violence means that a girl may be withdrawn from school by her parents; that women may lead lives of fear, placing constraints upon their own mobility and that of other girls and women in the family. Most of all, gender violence denies an individual the right to lead a healthy life, free of injury, illness and disease.

 
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