Awareness about Reproductive Health Issues among Youth in Pakistan
Journal Title: Research Journal Social Sciences (Online) - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Pakistan has one of the largest groups of young people, with approximately 25 million adolescent and youth between the ages 15-24 years. The agonizing fact remains that more than 20 million adolescent and youth in their formative years of life are deprived of knowledge and awareness about reproductive health related matters, an area that forms the basis to formulate policy and programmatic interventions and requires substantial in depth analysis. This study therefore attempts to undertake more comprehensive analysis of the level of awareness, using quantitative research techniques, about reproductive health and related issues amongst youth in Pakistan. The objective of this study is to examine the factors that affect the reproductive health awareness among youth and the reproductive health indicators by selected background socio-demographic characteristics. The analysis has been done for male and female separately to see the differential effect of selected variables on dependent variables in both urban and rural settings. Our analysis found a positive association between youth education and level of awareness regarding reproductive health issues. Youth of urban areas are more likely aware about reproductive health issues, especially male have more knowledge in both urban and rural areas. However, women’s autonomy variables do not show a significant effect on use of maternal health care. The results of this study suggest that steps should be taken to expand and improve the level of awareness about reproductive health issues especially in rural areas where awareness is much lesser than urban women.
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SAIMA BASHIR, UZMA ZIA
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