Decision Making in Family Planning: A Human Rights Issue

dc.contributor.authorBiswas, Homprabha
dc.contributor.authorRay, Subha
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-27T10:04:41Z
dc.date.available2024-07-27T10:04:41Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractA woman has the right to control over her own body and take decision regarding reproductive health free from any form of coercion, discrimination and violence. She further has the right to be informed and have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning. The present study was conducted on a group of married Muslim women of West Bengal with the objective to understand the role of these women in taking decision in adopting family planning practice and choosing contraceptive types. Data on socio-economic details, family planning practices and decision making ability were collected on 100 women, who were in wedlock and with at least one child. Results of the study reveal that 69 per cent of the study population was adopters of family planning, and in all the cases the husbands of these women took decision in choosing contraceptive types.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2320-8376
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/5285
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of North Bengalen_US
dc.subjectFamily planningen_US
dc.subjectDecision makingen_US
dc.subjectHuman Rightsen_US
dc.subjectMuslim womenen_US
dc.titleDecision Making in Family Planning: A Human Rights Issueen_US
dc.title.alternativeNorth Bengal Anthropologist, Vol. 3, 2015, pp. 83-98en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
periodical.nameNorth Bengal Anthropologist
periodical.pageEnd98
periodical.pageStart83
periodical.volumeNumber3

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