Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by Maurice I. Middleberg

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Series: Women's Health Issues
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive approach to developing and implementing reproductive health programs in the developing world. It fills a major gap in the literature by responding to the global need for a detailed guide to comprehensive reproductive health services. Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries furnishes an innovative conceptual model - reproductive security - and offers an in-depth analysis of major reproductive health issues.

The need for skilled, dedicated professionals is great. Those who choose to pursue the discipline are promised an endlessly rewarding and absorbing profession that will touch upon the most intimate aspects of life while reverberating globally. This book will be of great interest to public health professionals on both a local and global level, international policy makers, and relief workers.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Disclaimer......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
1. Purpose and Conceptual Framework......Page 16
2. Epidemiology of Reproductive Health......Page 40
3. Behavior Change......Page 68
4. Community Empowerment......Page 90
5. Building Institutional Capacity......Page 118
6. Contraception......Page 148
7. Maternal Health Care......Page 176
8. HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases......Page 206
9. Policy and Politics......Page 234
Notes......Page 250
References......Page 266
Index......Page 276