
Social Networks and Indian Women
All Things Policy
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What Are the Importances of Family Planning?
The use of contraceptive in women is around 57% according to the enefeces data. If a female has one morepeer outside her home, it increases her likelihood of visiting a family planning clinic by almost 60%. And again, if she has a close outside peer, it also increases her probability of using modern, contreceptive methods. So these have mass public healty outcomes. We've had this debate for a long time about reservation of certain positions within the pancithe or system for woman. But when reservation is combined with a good system of self help, rovs within a particular area, you see that the results are far better.
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