[EQ] Mental health aspects of women's reproductive health

Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health A global review of the literature

Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society

WHO Collaborating Centre in Women’s Health

School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

World Health Organization 2009

 

Available online as PDF file [181p.] at:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241563567_eng.pdf

 

 

“………This review is a contribution towards raising awareness on an emerging issue of major importance to public health. Its purpose is to provide information on the often neglected interlinks between these two areas so that public health professionals, planners, policy makers, and programme managers may engage in dialogue to consider policies and interventions that address the multiple dimensions of reproductive health in an integrated way.

 

“……..The review comprises the most recent data from both high- and low-income countries on the ways in which women’s mental health intersects with their reproductive health. The framework for analysis employed here is informed by two interconnected concepts: gender and human rights, especially reproductive rights….”

 

         Content

Chapter 1 Overview of key issues 1

The global burden of reproductive ill-health

Reproductive rights

Gender, rights and reproductive mental health

Chapter 2 Pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period

Chapter 3 Psychosocial aspects of fertility regulation

Chapter 4 Spontaneous pregnancy loss

Chapter 5 Menopause

Chapter 6 Gynaecological conditions

Chapter 7 Women’s mental health in the context of HIV/AIDS

Chapter 8 Infertility and assisted reproduction

Chapter 9 Female genital mutilation

Chapter 10 Conclusions

Annex WHO survey questionnaire on the mental health aspects of reproductive health

 

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