Abstract
Women is making the half proportion of each society like in Pakistan but it is the an unfortunate that she is deprived of her basic fundamental rights including mainly the right to seek medical care, to enjoy freedom or demand contraception, to get free and quality education. Violence is the most prevailing issue and multidimensional issue in Pakistani culture and norms. Violence has many forms all of which are affecting women and her self-esteem badly by sexual, physical, emotional and psychological violence. Domestic violence is the major issue of Southern Punjab due to back breaking and long hourly tasks of home. She is doing this job including child care of children without any pay or appreciation. Sexually transmitted diseases are also very common among women of southern Punjab. Lack of education and awareness are the major factors lagging women behind men in every sphere of life. Gender based violence harming women and her selfesteem because intimate partner of victimized women consider it as his right to violate her sexually, emotionally and physically. In fact other male members of the family violate her self-respect and murder her on the honor due to tribal Jirga norms. Laws are present for the proper protection of women but need of their implementation because laws are not enough to bring change in the status of women, implementation needed for a progressive and positive change in the socioeconomic status of women. Discrimination against women present in every sphere of life especially domestic violence by which women is facing respiratory diseases like TB, chronic illness, asthma, emphysema, lung cancer and bronchitis. Researcher explained the submissive position of women in southern Punjab by VModel and explained it in relation to the factors of quality model.

Ushna Tariq, Basit Habib, Burhan Rafay, Azra Asghar Ali . (2019) Analysis On The Issues Of Women Health Care In Perspective Of Pakistani Cultural Norms: A Case Study Of Southern Punjab, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 32, Issue 1.
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