Contextualizing Community Mobilization: Reviewing its Need and Importance in Health Milieu

In India, women form half of the total population. Despite efforts to achieve the millennium development goals of achieving gender equality and women empowerment, there are adverse disparities seen amongst the entire population especially between men and women which seems convincing enough to evolve strategies to counter these disparities spread across economic and social domains. The paper reviews the issues and health challenges faced by Indian women and talks about the importance of community mobilization in context to health especially for Indian Women.