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Human Reproductive Health
Human Reproductive Health
Pages 8-10
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Most maternal deaths are due to unsafe practices in terminating pregnancies, a lack of readily available services for high-risk pregnancies, and women having too many children or having them too early and too late in life. ~ Millions of people still do not have adequate access to family planning services and suitable contraceptives.
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Even when family planning and other reproductive health services are widely available, the social and economic status of women affects individual decisions to use them. The ability of women to make decisions about family size is greatly affected by~gender roles within society and in sexual relationships.
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Developed countries need to become more efficient in both resource use and environmental protection, and to encourage an ethic that eschews wasteful consumption. If prices, taxes, and regulatory policies include environmental costs, consumption habits will be influenced.
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