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| POSED emphasis on accelerating health literacy, particularly about preventable and infectious diseases, and strengthening health systems for delivery of quality services. |
| POSED’s bring private sector resources and ingenuity to drive public health changes for saving lives, particularly those of women and children. Educating the mass to invest in the girl child to end fetal selection and son preference, and to protect survival and growth of girls. Also briefing Women specially in Rural Areas about nutrition education & fortification sachets, immunization, and preventing water borne infections, and life cycle skills |
| India has the potential to benefit from a huge 'population dividend' for the labor force of the future, with nearly one-third of its population under the age of 15. However, this 'dividend' is at risk because a majority of India's young people live in poverty, are semi literate and unskilled, and are at risk to contract preventable yet debilitating diseases and fatal infections. Poor public health services further complicate the scenario as young people do not have access to adequate health care. |
Health indicators show that Women fare much worse than men in India. Their health illiteracy and lack of rights in concert with poor health services continues to fuel a vicious cycle of disease and premature death. From fetal selection for son preference to malnourishment and maternal mortality, female health indices are emblematic of deep socio-cultural discrimination that perpetuate inequitable health outcomes and impair their ability to live healthy lives.
This situation erodes India's productivity and economic gains because healthy women are key to healthy families and healthy families are key to a healthy economy.
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