Health Status of Rural Women in India: An Overview of Literatures

The present paper analyses the health status of the rural women in India. The review analysed the socio-cultural constraints of women, health needs, widespread women's ignorance, women's rights, women's access to available resources, nutritional stress, fertility and reproductive health, gender discrimination and awareness of reproductive health infections. However, there is need a wide scope for research to bring a holistic view of rural women health status. Since women faces various unique health issues as compared to male, there is a need for more specific and combined research on women health status. Thus, the present paper suggests the researchers in the field of women health to bring various research for safeguarding the women health status as whole.