Reproductive Health Status of Women in Rural Areas of Kerala, India

Reproductive health of women have largely been declining over a period of time (Quah, 2011). It is quite disheartening to see that the people living in rural areas were not utilizing the services due to lack of awareness and timely interventions (Sakhuja, 2008). Apart from these factors like illiteracy and lack of health consciousness resulted in the most people not being aware of the illness at a stage when prevention is possible. Even the state of Kerala that announces its high indicators are not exempted from this context. Hence the present study on the Reproductive health status of women in rural areas of Kerala was undertaken