Exploring Reproductive Health: A Comprehensive Flow Chart
Reproductive Health Flow Chart
Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being in all matters relating to reproduction. It includes the ability to have a satisfying and safe sex life and power over whether or not to reproduce.
A CDC flow chart that lays out the clinical pathway for providing quality family planning services. This includes screening, education, counseling and reproductive life plan development.
What is Reproductive Health?
Reproductive health is the ability to conceive, have a healthy pregnancy and deliver a healthy baby. It also includes the ability to choose a safe method of birth control and to avoid sexually transmitted infections like HIV.
Women’s reproductive health involves a complex network of hormone signals that function primarily to produce and protect offspring, but have far-reaching influences on female health, beyond fertility. This is particularly true during the fetal and infant stages of life, where disruptions may lead to serious consequences.
Reproductive health care includes services that prevent teen pregnancies and help families plan for their future. It is essential to a person’s overall well-being. Access to reproductive health care and insurance coverage are critical. This is why we are dedicated to research in these areas.
Preconception Care
Preconception care (PCC) focuses on optimizing health in women and their partners prior to conception in order to improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes. PCC includes counselling and the provision of biomedical, behavioural and social health interventions.
Health promotion and risk assessment: Promoting healthy behaviors such as eating a balanced diet, staying active, and avoiding harmful substances like tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs. Also, assessing an individual’s risk factors and providing guidance and intervention to minimize these risks.
Family planning: Advising individuals and couples on how to plan their family size in a way that aligns with their goals. This often involves discussing contraceptive methods.
Pregnancy Care
The pregnancy care phase focuses on the health of mothers and infants. It includes counseling on healthy eating, preventing sexually transmitted infections, ensuring that women have access to birth control and a safe abortion, and providing postpartum care for new mothers. It also includes helping women make informed decisions about pregnancy termination and ART.
Clinicians should offer contraception to clients regardless of whether the client is a parent or not and screen for conditions that can affect pregnancy. For ambivalent clients, clinicians can use One Key Question to facilitate a discussion about family planning and support for their reproductive goals.
Postpartum Care
In the months following a pregnancy, women need postpartum care. During this time, doctors will check how the mother is healing after childbirth, talk to her about birth control and return-to-sexual activity planning, and discuss how much time she should wait to become pregnant again.
Women with chronic medical conditions such as hypertensive disorders, obesity, diabetes, thyroid disorders, renal disease, mood disorders and substance use should be counseled regarding the importance of timely follow-up with their obstetrician-gynecologists or primary care providers for ongoing coordination of care. To optimize postpartum care, reimbursement policies should facilitate changes in the scope of this visit. A webinar on this topic is available.
Birth Control
There are several types of birth control, and each works differently. Some methods prevent pregnancy by blocking sperm from reaching an egg (barrier methods); others use hormones to prevent ovulation or change the conditions in your cervix or uterus (hormonal medications and devices). Sterilization is surgery to permanently prevent pregnancy (male and female sterilization). The most effective way to avoid pregnancy is not to have sexual intercourse at all, which is called abstinence.
Understanding complex topics becomes easier when they are explained in the form of mind maps or flow charts. Even examiners prefer these ways of explaining things. So, we have created a creatively designed CBSE Class 12 Biology Reproductive Health Mind Map for you. You can download it by clicking on the link below.
