What Is Reproductive Health?

What Is Reproductive Health?
Become personally and actively involved with your reproductive health.
The World Health Organization defines reproductive health as the ability

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to have a responsible and satisfying sexual relationship and the ability to reproduce and decide when and how often to do so. It also includes unrestricted access to safe, acceptable and affordable information and reproductive health-care options.
• Significance
Reproductive

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health is a major worldwide concern. Educating yourself about reproductive health in general is the first step towards a healthy reproductive life.
• Risk Factors
For women, the most significant factor that affects fertility is maternal age, according to the University of California,

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San Francisco (UCSF). The ovaries' ability to produce normal and healthy eggs decreases as a woman ages, which can lead to abnormalities or unsuccessful childbirth. For men, environmental agents were seen to have significant effects on the quality of sperm cells.
Reproductive health can be influenced by other factors, such as gender norms, marital status, sexual activity, childbearing status, peer pressure, political/cultural views, economic/social status, smoking, alcohol use, drug use, sexual history and exposure to toxins.
• Reproductive Health Problems
Reproductive health problems include infertility, infections,

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cancers, dystocia (difficulty in giving birth) and other problems related to the reproductive system.
• Effects
Reproductive health problems can hinder a person's enjoyment of a

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sexual relationship. It also affects her ability to have children. The effects can go beyond physical pain; reproductive health problems can cause psychological distress and embarrassment.
• Prevention/Solution
To take care of your reproductive health, you must maintain a healthy

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lifestyle. You should quit smoking, maintain the proper body weight, practice protected sex, exercise and become actively involved with your reproductive health by having a checkup by a physician.