Definition
Reproductive health is a state of complete wellbeing in terms of physical, psychological, and social wellbeing. Reproductive health constitutes the entire process of having a satisfying sex life, autonomy in decisions related to one’s own reproductive rights. The rights include having access to complete information related to safe, affordable, and effective methods to plan one’s family size, the spacing of children, regulation of fertility, access to health care services, and effective communication for safe motherhood that enhances the possibility to have healthy children and healthy mothers. Reproductive health involves three elements: quality of health services, informed free consent, and respecting confidentiality (Mago et al. 2005).
At the basic level, sexual health involves the freedom of experiencing safe sex that is pleasurable without being troubled by real or potential discrimination or violence that leads to a state of physical, psychological, and social wellbeing...
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Biswas, U.N. (2021). Adolescent Reproductive Health in South Asia: Issues and Challenges. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95687-9_47
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