Q4. Do you think reproductive health in our country has improved in the past 50 years? If yes, mention some areas of improvement. (NCERT Exercise 4)
Yes. NCERT’s indicators: better awareness about sex-related matters; more medically assisted deliveries and better post-natal care, with lower maternal and infant mortality rates; more couples with small families; better detection and cure of STDs; and more medical facilities for sex-related problems (NCERT page 43).
Q5. True or false, with explanation: creating awareness about sex-related aspects is an effective method to improve the reproductive health of the people. (NCERT Exercise 11 d)
True. Creating awareness is one of the two major tasks of the RCH programmes, and proper information about reproductive organs, adolescence, safe and hygienic sexual practices and STDs helps people, especially adolescents, lead a reproductively healthy life (NCERT page 42).
Q6. What is taken in amniocentesis, and what is analysed?
Some of the amniotic fluid of the developing foetus is taken, and its fetal cells and dissolved substances are analysed (NCERT page 42).