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Health is an asset to human and to the community and has come to be regarded as a prerequisite to socio-economic development. The active role of women in the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, village cottage industries and several other facets of rural life besides the home and family is well established and is a known fact (Sidramshetter, 2004). Often women because of their household responsibilities and ignorance of health and hygiene practices tend to neglect their food intake and illness till their health problems get aggravated and hampers their normal household chores. The present study focuses on women's health issues and how linked to social, cultural, economic factors, whereas, their nutritional status substantially influences entire aspects of their lives. Women bear multiple burdens in serving all the family members, doing household works, caring children, cooking food and adopting the family planning. If women are not well nourished, they are more likely to give birth to a weak baby resulting to possibility of high infant mortality rate. The paper attempts to examine women's health problems, nutrition intake, age at marriage, their reproductive health, place of delivery and the determinants which influence these indicators in Labpur Community Development Block of Birbhum District, West Bengal. It is found that the health condition of the rural women is yet poor. Women face higher risk of malnutrition, retardation in growth and health condition is adversely affected by child birth under improper place of delivery. In order to materialize the objectives data from both primary and secondary sources have been used. Data have been interpreted with the help of statistical techniques like percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis with the help of MS Excel and Jamovi software. Maps have been prepared applying QGIS.