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Family planning in India

Index Family planning in India

Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government. [1]

34 relations: Abortion, Assam, Bihar, Birth control, Calendar-based contraceptive methods, Chhattisgarh, Compulsory sterilization, Crore, Emergency, Family planning, Government of India, Human overpopulation, India, Indira Gandhi, Infant mortality, Intrauterine device, List of states and union territories of India by fertility rate, Mahatma Gandhi, Medroxyprogesterone acetate, Meghalaya, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland, National Health Mission, One-child policy, Population momentum, Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Red Triangle (family planning), Sex-selective abortion, Sexually transmitted infection, Sterilization (medicine), The Indian Express, Total fertility rate, Two-child policy, Uttar Pradesh.

Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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Birth control

Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, is a method or device used to prevent pregnancy.

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Calendar-based contraceptive methods

Calendar-based methods are various methods of estimating a woman's likelihood of fertility, based on a record of the length of previous menstrual cycles.

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Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh (translation: Thirty-Six Forts) is one of the 29 states of India, located in the centre-east of the country.

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Compulsory sterilization

Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, programs are government policies which force people to undergo surgical or other sterilization.

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Crore

A crore (abbreviated cr) or koti denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system as 1,00,00,000 with the local style of digit group separators (a lakh is equal to one hundred thousand and is written as 1,00,000).

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Emergency

An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment.

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Family planning

Family planning services are defined as "educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved".

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian National Congress.

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Infant mortality

Infant mortality refers to deaths of young children, typically those less than one year of age.

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Intrauterine device

An intrauterine device (IUD), also known as intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD or ICD) or coil, is a small, often T-shaped birth control device that is inserted into a woman's uterus to prevent pregnancy.

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List of states and union territories of India by fertility rate

This is a list of the States and union territories of India of India ranked in order of number of children born for each woman.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Medroxyprogesterone acetate

Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), sold under the brand name Depo-Provera among others, is a hormonal medication of the progestin type.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya is a state in Northeast India.

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is an Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India.

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Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in Northeast India.

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National Health Mission

National Health Mission (NHM) was launched by the government of India in 2013 subsuming the National Rural Health Mission and National Urban Health Mission.

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One-child policy

The one-child policy, a part of the family planning policy, was a population planning policy of China.

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Population momentum

Population momentum is a typical consequence of the demographic transition.

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Raghunath Dhondo Karve

Raghunath Dhondo Karve not only predicted future complications like population growth and sexual problems, but also did a lot of work to find a solution for it.

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Red Triangle (family planning)

An inverted Red Triangle is the symbol for family planning health and contraception services, much as the red cross is a symbol for medical services.

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Sex-selective abortion

Sex-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant.

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Sexually transmitted infection

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex.

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Sterilization (medicine)

Sterilization (also spelled sterilisation) is any of a number of medical techniques that intentionally leaves a person unable to reproduce.

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The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper.

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Total fertility rate

The total fertility rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, absolute/potential natality, period total fertility rate (PTFR), or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if.

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Two-child policy

A two-child policy is a government-imposed limit of two children allowed per family or the payment of government subsidies only to the first two children.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning_in_India

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