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Vol.3, No.4, 233-237 (2011) Health doi:10.4236/health.2011.34041 Menopausal transition and postmenopausal health problems: a review on its bio-cultural perspectives Shailendra Kumar Mishra Department of Anthropology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India; shailendra17@ Received 29 December 2011; revised 18 January 2011; accepted 17 March 2011. ABSTRACT owing to improved economic conditions, rapid lifestyle changes, and increased longevity [5]. Generally, women This paper documents health problems faced by have more complex and stressful aging process as men menopausal and postmenopausal women. These do, as a consequence of hormonal changes that occur women constitute a sizable proportion of India’s during menopausal transition [6]. The onset of this population though there exist no health care physiological development not only marks the end of programmes to cater their specific health needs women’ reproductive function but makes them more and health vulnerabilities arose due to meno- vulnerable to a new set of health problems including pausal transition. Researchers have generally cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis and so on [7]. tried to determine age at m