Does family life education influence attitudes towards sexual and reproductive health matters among unmarried young women in India?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Inadequate efforts towards meeting the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and young people, who disproportionately share the burden of unwanted pregnancies, poor maternal and child health outcomes, risks of RTI/STI and HIV/AIDS, increase the risk of losing much of the progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals over the last decade, particularly in the context of low-and-middle-income countries like India.

Data and methods

Using the nationally representative data on 160551 unmarried young women aged 15-24 years from the District Level Reproductive and Child Health Survey (DLHS: 2007-2008) in India, this research evaluated the demographic and socioeconomic differentials in the access to family life/sex education (FLE) among youth in In

SUBMITTER: Tripathi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7833152 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature