Male vs. Female
Tostan Program
Tamil Nadu, India
Case Studies
The Future
100
This gender has more known information about health.
What is female?
100
This program worked in a number of countries on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
The state of Tamil Nadu has reduced this.
What is maternal mortality?
100
The case study in the textbook about the reduction of maternal deaths is in this country.
What is Sri Lanka?
100
This is a central part of the long-term improvement in women's health. (hint: it is extremely important in everything we have looked at this semester)
What is education?
200
This gender has a lower life expectancy.
What is male?
200
This social norm is represented by the letters F.G.C.
What is Female Genital Cutting?
200
The delay in seeking appropriate obstetric care, transport to an appropriate facility in case of emergency, and receiving emergency obstetric care are known as this.
What are the "three delays?"
200
This case study in the textbook is about dealing with obstetric fistula is in this country.
What is Tanzania?
200
The simplest way to prevent sexually transmitted infections is to do this.
What is use condoms?
300
80% of females lose more DALYs from this.
What is Alzheimer's disease.
300
This means "to prepare the field for planting."
What is Kobi?
300
The availability and access to emergency obstetric care has improved because of the creation of these 62 centers.
What is Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric (CEmOC) and Newborn Care Centers?
300
This is an abnormal passageway between two organs and the body surface or between two hollow or tubular organs.
What is the fistula?
300
About 70,000 women die each year as a result of this.
What is unsafe abortion?
400
Osteoarthritis and age-related vision disorders account for this percent of lost DAYLs.
What is 60%?
400
This means "to plant the seed."
What is Aawde?
400
In 2005, the total fertility rate decreased to 1.7 because the state government focused on these three components.
What are policies that aim to prevent and terminate unwanted pregnancies, provide greater access to obstetric care at the primary level, and to provide access to emergency obstetric care at the first referral level?
400
Sri Lanka took these three steps to reduce maternal deaths.
What are improving access to health services, introducing policies to expand the number of midwives, and to make use of civil registration data to determine what areas had the most problems with maternal mortality?
400
It is important to promote these three things.
What is female empowerment, female education, and female control over economic resources?
500
Females lose three times more DAYLs than men from this.
What is migraine headaches?
500
This program isn't about eradicating F.G.C. but rather it is about this.
What is educating participants about human rights and responsibilities so that they may become empowered to be leaders within their community?
500
Tamil Nadu reduced the maternal mortality rate ratio from this in 1980 to this in 2005.
What is 450 to 90?
500
The Women's Dignity Project carried out these four efforts.
What are identifying women with fistula and arranged transport for them to a hospital to have surgery, published a booklet to raise awareness, worked NGOs to raise money, and collaborated with some NGOs to identify and address the risk factors for fistula?
500
Improving women's health will require these 7 things.
What are cost-effective package of services, family planning, prenatal care, deliveries attended by skilled healthcare providers, emergency transportation of women having complicated labors, and emergency obstetric services provided at hospitals?
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