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प्रश्न
Suggest some important steps that you would recommend to be taken to improve the reproductive health standards in India.
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उत्तर
Following measures are needed to be taken to improve the reproductive health standards in India
- Providing infrastructural facilities and professional expertise to attain reproductive health.
- Educating people about birth control method, care of pregnant mothers, importance of breast feeding. safe and hygienic sexual practices and safeguard against STDs.
- Introducing of sex education in schools to give proper information to the young minds about sex-related aspect.
- Help of audio-visual and print media to create awareness among people about reproduction-related aspects.
- Awareness of problems due to populaton explosin, soicial evils like sex-abuse and sex-related crimes.
- Statutory ban on amniocentesis to legally check female foeticides.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Our government has intentionally imposed strict conditions for M.T.P. in our country. Justify giving a reason.
What is the causative organism for AIDS?
Give two examples of sexually transmitted diseases.
What is the name of surgical method of birth control (or preventing pregnancy) which is carried out in women?
The sexually transmitted disease which is caused by bacteria is :
(a) malaria
(b) diarrhoea
(c) gonorrhoea
(d) AIDS
In the surgical method of birth control available for males, the structures A in the reproductive system are cut and ligated (tied up) at both ends. This prevents the reproductive cells B from coming out from the organs C where they are made in the male body. Since B cannot come out from the male body, they cannot fuse with cell D in the body of a female and hence pregnancy is prevented.
(a) What are structures A?
(b) What are cells B?
(c) Name the organs C.
(d) What is cell D?
(e) What is the name of this surgical procedure for birth control available to males?
In the surgical method of birth control available for human females, the structures P in the reproductive system are cut and ligated (tied up) properly at both ends. This prevents the reproductive cell Q released by an organ R from entering the structures P so that Q is not available to fuse with another reproductive cell S coming from the male reproductive system. In this way, pregnancy is prevented.
(a) What are structures P?
(b) What is cell Q?
(c) Name the organ R.
(d) What is the reproductive cell S?
(e) What is the name of this surgical method of birth control available to females?
A, B and C are three common STDs. A and C are caused by bacteria whereas B is caused by a virus D. The virus D reduces the immunity of the infected person to such a low level that the person can die of even very mild diseases.
(a) What could A and C be?
(b) What is B?
(c) Name the virus D?
(d) How can A, B and C be caused?
(e) Out of A, B and C, which one does not have a definite cure as yet?
Name the kind of diseases/disorders that are likely to occur in humans if
(i) mutation in the gene that codes for an enzyme phenyl alanine hydrolase occurs,
(ii) there is an extra copy of chromosome 21,
(iii) the karyotype is XXY.
What are Sexually Transitted Diseases (STD)? List two viral and two bacterial STDs.
Expand the following abbreviation:
IUCD
What is contraception? List four different methods. State four reasons for adopting contraceptive methods.
Reproduction is linked to stability of population of a species. Justify the statement.
Give a suitable word for the following statement.
Name of a gland which transports secretions through ducts.
It is believed that height of a child depends upon the genes inherited from parents. However, it is often seen that tall parents may have short children and vice-versa. Are there factors other than genes that can cause these variations?
Do you justify the statutory ban on amniocentesis in our country? Give reasons.
Enumerate and describe any five reasons for introducing sex education to school-going children.
State one drawback of the following:
Copper - T
Given below are four aspects of Reproductive Health in Column A and their related information in Column B:
| Column A | Column B | ||
| S. No. | Terms used in Reproductive Health | S. No. | Significant information |
| (A) | MTP | (i) | Analysing fetal cells from amniotic fluid of the foetus |
| (B) | Amniocentesis | (ii) | Legalised in 1971 |
| (C) | Saheli | (iii) | Programme initiated in 1951 |
| (D) | Family Planning | (iv) | Non-steroidal oral Planning contraceptive |
Select the correct match from the following options:
