(b) Safe maternity and childhood

Journal of Health Education, No. 55, 40,000 copies.

Journal of Health Education, No. 56, 40,000 copies.

Reproductive behaviour is characterized by childbirth soon after marriage and close spacing between births (until the desired number is reached), after which fertility is limited.

(c) 100 per cent of the gross wage during pregnancy and childbirth

1.90 The repetition rate will have been reduced to an average of 3.77 per cent in the elementary cycle and 5.9 per cent in the preparatory cycle.

Giving birth in adolescence enhances the risk of child mortality

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At the time of pregnancy, birth, and childcare, a woman has the right to maternity leave in the duration of one straight year.

In the case of maternity the mother is provided with obstetric assistance and benefits in cash and kind during a set period.

Already, women aged 45 49 mostly uses female sterilization, a clear indication that women of this age prefer to stop rather than space their fertility.

According to the data of the Ministry of Health, the total fertility rate for 1985 1990 was 2.9, and for 1990 1995 2.7.

1.88 The student teacher ratio in the elementary cycle will have been reduced to 32 1.

1.89 The student teacher ratio in the preparatory cycle will have been reduced to 25 1.

Likewise, in the event of complications arising during the pregnancy period, the childbirth or the post natal period, as well as in the event of the birth of two or more children, the woman is granted an additional paid leave of 14 calendar days thus the period of the post natal leave is extended from 56 to 70 calendar days.

TGF Rates Global of Fertility

In 2001 the fertility rate in the country's poorest regions was 5.9 children per woman.

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26 weeks where she is delivered of more than one child on any given confinement and eight weeks where her child is stillborn or dies during the first six weeks of life.

399. In the early 1990s, the total fertility rate nationwide was 3.5 children per woman, a reduction of 34 per cent compared with 1977, when it was 5.3 children per woman.

I. SHORT TERM TRAINING AND LONG TERM EDUCATION

Round table on reproductive rights and reproductive health programmes

During these six decades, much progress has been made in the areas of life expectancy, health, education and quality of life.

This mainly is caused by lack of access to the required information for both women and men and lack of participation of men in family planning as well as family planning counseling during the post natal period for both women and men.

The use of sex hormones.

Women account for 54.4 per cent of all higher education students between 1996 and 2004, the number of women enrolled in higher education increased from 344,200 to 513,400.

Early childhood education.

The difference between desired and actual fertility is wider among lower income women (whose desired and actual fertility rates are 3.8 and 5.5, respectively) than among higher income women (2.5 and 1.7, respectively).

The fertility rate is high, at 6.6 children per woman.

FERTILITY

The fertility rate calculated for the period 1990 1995 was 2.7, representing a decline of almost 23 per cent over the 15 preceding years.

The Ministry of Health carries out, on a regular basis, a program for active health protection of mothers and children that comprises activities in the field of family planning (education, visiting nurse services, visiting counseling services for family planning, prescription of contraceptives, etc.).

Sex and Family Life Education

The lowest rates are found among the population with the highest level of education, with neonatal and infant rates of 7 and a child rate of 11, whereas for the population without education these rates are 16, 27 and 48 respectively.

If the current reproduction rates remain unchanged, women will have an average of three children during their fertile life, compared with an average of more than seven in the 1960s.

decrease in average number of household members, increase in number of extramarital children, increase in average age of mothers at child birth and first child birth, decrease in number of entered marriages, decrease in number of divorces.

Births to working mothers as a total percentage of all births

(c) Reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health

Birth Rates and Fertility Rates

Upper secondary education is an excellent level at which to demonstrate what human rights are and the manner in which they are protected.

In 2003 2004, both in the Hebrew and the Arab education, most of the pupils studied in general public high schools.

The Government does not offer scholarships, but provides education loans for university attendance with a generous pay back period.12

For 2003, the birthrate indicator in Greece was 1.27 children per woman, the same as in 2002, while in 1980 it was 2.21 children per woman.

The Committee also calls upon HKSAR to introduce education on sexual and reproductive health in the school curriculum.

Family Planning