Dr Anbarasu Mohanraj's Blog - Women's Health
WOMEN’S HEALTH Today is International Women’s day. Leaving apart the gaga of celebrating the Women’s day with chocolates and roses, if we dissect into the reality behind Women’s health in India, it’s quite dismal. It is a hard truth that there is a gender prejudice in the overall health in our country and a deep gender prejudice in the health care access too. India ranks among the bottom in women’s health care. Women spend less on health, fare worse in disease outcomes and nutritional surveys. Even in developed states like the South, the number of women coming up for diagnosis at an early stage of malignancies, diabetes mellitus and heart disease is quite low. A typical example would be the house-wives who were born in the 1950s to 1970s. They always had the least nutritious food which is carb rich lacking all forms of veggies and meat. They prioritise the nutritious part of the diet to the husband who used to be the sole bread winner and the rest to the kids. The end result has been...