You may choose to use the framework for designing and planning your reproductive health programme or for determining if aspects of your programme are indeed women-centred as planned. A poster of this framework has also been developed. The most important aspect of women's health is pregnancy, childbearing and fertility. Women's health is very important as it affects the health of children. Women's health has not automatically improved by focusing on contraception and maternal health-maternal mortality rates can still be high even though use of contraceptives has risen When women have fewer children who are better spaced, women's health and status will improve.
Most resources spent on women's health go disproportionately to family planning programmes.
Narrow family planning and maternal and child health care programmes with no attention to human rights have contributed to reducing women's control over their lives. A narrow bio-medical meaning as maternal health, or the health of women of reproductive age, focusing on birth and child bearing without death or disease, and on contraception. Improve women's health including their reproductive health. Increase women's control over their bodies and ultimately their lives. Demographic goals of countries are more important than the human rights of individuals.