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Bryson, Lois. "The Women's Health Australia Project and Policy Development." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 3 (1998): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98031.
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The Women's Health Australia (WHA) project plans to follow the health of a national sample of around 42,000 women who, in 1996, were in the age cohorts 18-22, 45-49 and 70-74. The multi-disciplinary research team adopts a social approach to health, focuses on biological, psychological, social and lifestyle factors and their relationship to physical health and emotional wellbeing, and is examining the use of, and satisfaction with, health care services. Base-line survey data highlight diversity and the need for health policy to tailor communications to the different age groups. In terms of general wellbeing and service appropriateness, the young are the most problematic, the mid cohort next, while older women indicate fewest problems. Young women experience the highest levels of stress, often suffer from tiredness and are over-concerned with their weight and shape. They are also most dissatisfied with GP services. Issues of employment and health are also central. In general employment is associated with good health, but strains are evident when there are family commitments. As employment becomes increasingly normalised for women, health policy must be mindful of these effects and the significant difficulties faced by a small group of women whose health precludes employment.
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Abel, Kathryn, and Sian Rees. "Reproductive and sexual health of women service users: what's the fuss?" Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 16, no. 4 (July 2010): 279–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.108.006635.
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SummaryNearly a decade ago, the Department of Health published its strategic development plan for mental healthcare for women. It focused on the ways in which mental health services for women should be configured to take account of the context of women's lives and the complexity of their health needs. This commentary argues that attention to the reproductive and sexual health of women in mental healthcare is at the centre of a gender-sensitive and modern mental health service.
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Örüklü, Canan, and Sultan Çakmak. "Women's health within the framework of sustainable development goals." Journal of Human Sciences 18, no. 3 (July 8, 2021): 364–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v18i3.6118.
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The present study is aim to evaluate the health situation of girls and women within the framework of the main sustainable development goals affecting health status and to specify the factors affecting them. Goals of sustainable development aim to bring individuals to peace, tranquility and prosperity within a sustainable planet. There are three aspects of sustainable development such as economic, social and environmental. Achieving one of the sustainable development goals makes it easier to reach another. The biological characteristics and social roles of women make them an important player that will provide a sustainable world. Although the sustainable development goals have made significant improvements in the quality of life of girls and women from the beginning, the world is still far behind the targets. As women affect their environment, they are heavily influenced by social determinants such as human rights, gender equality, justice and culture. The goals of “ending poverty”, “healthy and quality life”, “qualified education” and “gender equality” are the main targets affecting women's health. Poverty causes consequences such as hunger, unhealthy environmental conditions, inability to access health services, delay in cancer diagnosis, diseases and death in women. High education level, receiving prenatal care, benefiting from sexual and reproductive health services reduce maternal and infant mortality rates. Participation of women in working life has a positive effect which is not only economically but also spiritually. Women are an indispensable factor of sustainable development. Health and Care needs of women who are neglected in every period of their lives should be determined with a lifelong approach, and it should be taken into consideration that they are more affected by biological and social factors in the responses to these needs. Healthy, educated and empowered women will appear as employees, mothers, caregivers, volunteers and leaders who influence the structure of society and advance sustainable development. Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. Özet Bu çalışmada, sağlık durumunu etkileyen başlıca sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedefleri çerçevesinde kız çocuklarının ve kadınların sağlığını değerlendirmek ve etkileyen faktörleri belirlemeyi amaçlamıştır. Sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedefleri, bireyleri barış, huzur ve refaha ulaştırmayı ve sürdürülebilir bir gezegeni amaçlar. Sürdürülebilir kalkınmanın ekonomik, sosyal ve çevresel olmak üzere üç boyutu vardır. Sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedeflerinden birine ulaşmak bir diğerine ulaşmayı kolaylaştırmaktadır. Kadınların sahip oldukları biyolojik özellikler ve sosyal roller, onları sürdürülebilir bir dünyayı sağlayacak önemli bir güç haline getirmektedir. Sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedefleri başlangıçtan bu yana kız çocuklarının ve kadınların yaşam kalitesinde önemli iyileşmeler sağlasa da dünya halen hedeflerin çok gerisindedir. Kadınlar çevrelerini etkiledikleri gibi insan hakları, cinsiyet eşitliği, adalet ve kültür gibi sosyal belirleyicilerden yoğun olarak etkilenirler. Yoksulluğa son, sağlık ve kaliteli yaşam, nitelikli eğitim ve toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği hedefleri, kadın sağlığını etkileyen başlıca hedeflerdir. Yoksulluk kadınlarda açlık, sağlıksız çevre koşulları, sağlık hizmetlerine ulaşamama, kanser tanısında gecikme, hastalık ve ölüm gibi sonuçlara neden olmaktadır. Yüksek eğitim düzeyi, doğum öncesi bakım alma, cinsel sağlık ve üreme sağlığı hizmetlerinden faydalanma anne ve bebek mortalite oranlarını azaltmaktadır. Kadınların çalışma hayatına katılımı sadece ekonomik olarak değil ruhsal yönden de olumlu bir etkiye sahiptir. Kadınlar, sürdürülebilir kalkınmanın vazgeçilmez bir unsurudur. Yaşamlarının her döneminde ihmal edilen kadınların, yaşam boyu sürecek bir yaklaşımla sağlık ve bakım ihtiyaçları belirlenmeli ve bu ihtiyaçlara verilen yanıtlarda biyolojik ve sosyal faktörlerden daha fazla etkilendikleri göz önünde bulundurulmalıdır. Sağlıklı, eğitimli ve güçlendirilmiş kadınlar, toplum yapısını etkileyen ve sürdürülebilir kalkınmayı ilerletecek çalışanlar, anneler, bakım verenler, gönüllüler ve liderler olarak karşımıza çıkacaktır.
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Basinski, Dee. "Ports in a Storm: A Postnatal Depression Rural Support Services Project." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 3 (1998): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98046.
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This nine-month action-research project was conducted in 1996 by NEWomen Goulburn North-Eastern Women's Health Service and aimed to improve the system of services and support for women suffering postnatal depression (PND) in the Wangaratta district. The challenge was to influence existing mainstream and community service providers to bring about an effective system of service provision. The project included research, consultation and community education. Major findings were that PND was under-detected in some instances through inadequate knowledge and detection skills. Some women with PND experienced difficulty in receiving suitable services in a co-ordinated and timely way. Important outcomes were the review of the existing service system and consequent improvements. Working relations, co-operation and networking between various services were enhanced, as through the Project, providers supported: establishing a PND self-help group; distributing a PND information brochure; training recovered women to provide volunteer home-visiting support to women experiencing depression; trialing a 'screening' and co-ordinated referral approach and identifying good practice models. Another significant outcome was the opportunity for personal development as women participated in the project as interviewees, media commentators, support group members and home-visiting trainees. This paper highlights developments and ongoing challenges since the 1996 project.
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Ali, Syed Mubashir, Hussain B. Siyal, and Mehboob Sultan. "Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Choices." Pakistan Development Review 34, no. 4III (December 1, 1995): 1137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v34i4iiipp.1137-1150.
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The 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (lCPD) in their Programme of Action calls for promoting gender equality and equity and the empowerment of women. Furthermore, the conference also recognises the basic rights of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing, and timing of their children, as well as the right to the information and the means to do so [Sadik (1994)]. The need for such a programme of action arose in view of the fact that in many countries, including Pakistan, women are generally least empowered and hence they have negligible rights to decide about the number of their children. According to the 1990-91 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, over 54 percent women either wanted to stop having children or wanted to wait at least two years before having another child [Ali and Rukanuddin (1992)]. However, in practice, all of these women were not protected; instead, only 12 percent were practising contraception [Shah and Ali (1992)]. The low incidence of family planning practice on the part of the women is not so much due to the dearth of family planning services; rather it is due to resistance by husbands, in-laws, and other peer pressures. Demographers like Caldwell (1982) and Cain et al. (1979) also contend that in patriarchal societies it is the patriarchy which militates against the fertility decline.
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Asghar, Kanwal, Ashfaq Ahmad Maan, Khalid Mahmood Ch, Farkhanda Anjum, Ijaz Ashraf, Aqeela Saghir, and M. Athar Javed Khan. "WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SECURITY;." Professional Medical Journal 21, no. 06 (December 10, 2014): 1092–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2014.21.06.2253.
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Around the world, the right to health and especially reproductive health right are far from a reality for many women. Reproductive health is of growing concern today. Reproductive health therefore implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sexual life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how after to do so. Reproduction is a dual commitment but so after in much of the world, it is seen as wholly the women’s responsibility. There are four major problems commonly encountered by women in family planning and contraceptive use: accessibility to family planning information and services, quality of services, gender responsibilities and spousal communication. These problems become major obstacles preventing women from regularity fertility or exercising the reproductive rights. The importance of good health and education to women’s well being and that of her family and society cannot be overstated. Spousal Communication is crucial step toward increasing women’s participation in improving their health rights. Therefore the study was conducted to investigate the perception of married women about the role of spousal communication in establishing reproductive health security. For this purpose 200 married women of age group 15-45 with having at least one living child were selected through multistage sampling technique from urban areas of district Faisalabad. The study explored in bi-variate analysis that those women who were educated, younger and had a high economic status had a perception that the spousal communication plays a significant role in the development of women’s attitude towards their reproductive health security.
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Sarkar, Jaydip, and Mary di Lustro. "Evolution of secure services for women in England." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 17, no. 5 (September 2011): 323–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.109.007773.
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SummaryPatients detained at high and medium security reveal significant gender differences in the presentation of psychopathology, mental disorder and social and offending profiles. However, secure mental health services in England, like prisons, generally fail to recognise the core importance of the differing biopsychosocial development in women and the impact of life experiences on women's subsequent biopsychosocial functioning. As a consequence, women are often inadequately provided for in services dictated by the identified needs, risks and responsiveness of men. The lack of clinically appropriate facilities for women may account for the increased frequency with which women are readmitted to medium security and for their longer admissions to both high and medium secure care. New tertiary services are developing as a result of the lessons learnt while providing gender-blind care. However, further development is required to ensure that women receive services of the same quality, range and nature of those received by men.
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Wilson, Gai, Paul Butler, Tricia Szirom, and Jenny Cameron. "Indirect Services Funded by the National Women's Health Program in Victoria." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 2 (1998): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98023.
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Victoria's Women's Health Services and Centres Against Sexual Assault have implemented a range of indirect activities utilising various strategies and methods with a particular focus on information and resource provision, education and training, community development and promotional activity. They have increased women's access to existing services by working to make those services more appropriate and relevant. To achieve this they have involved women in the community in program management, design and implementation. Collaboration with other agencies in health and related services has also been a key strategy in achieving changes to mainstream services and fulfilling the aims of the dual strategy.
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Lorenze, Donna Lee. "Women's Lived Experiences of Giving Birth in Ghana: A Metasynthesis of the Literature." International Journal of Childbirth 10, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 126–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/ijcbirth-d-20-00015.
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BACKGROUNDThe purpose of this metasynthesis is to analyze women's lived experiences of giving birth in Ghana during and after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), when health policy in Ghana was changed to urge women to birth in health services with skilled attendants.METHODAn interpretive phenomenological framework guided the review of the literature. Three electronic databases were searched as well as reference lists and author searches. Articles that met the screening criteria for inclusion were coded and thematically analyzed, then drawn together to construct the essence of women's experiences of giving birth in Ghana.RESULTSSeven themes were constructed from the data and these were poor quality health services, maltreatment by midwives, mixed emotions about pregnancy and childbirth, supernatural fears, women wanting safe births with skilled birth attendants, uncertainty about reaching a health facility, and decision-making hierarchy. There were three counter themes and these were women wanting a home birth with a traditional midwife, defiance against dominant decision-makers by some women, and a belief that “not all nurses are bad.”CONCLUSIONGhanaian women have heeded the MDGs and health policy messages to birth with skilled attendants, but in reality, they are not always accessible, available, appropriate, or of high quality. Maternal health services still need much improvement including more resources such as staff, essential services, medicines, and quality assurance standards.
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Kiani, Zahra, Masuomeh Simbar, Mahrokh Dolatian, and Farid Zayeri. "Correlation between Social Determinants of Health and Women’s Empowerment in Reproductive Decision-Making among Iranian Women." Global Journal of Health Science 8, no. 9 (February 2, 2016): 312. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v8n9p312.
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<p><strong>BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: </strong>Women empowerment is one of millennium development goals which is effective on fertility, population’s stability and wellbeing. The influence of social determinants of health (SDH) on women empowerment is documented, however the correlation between SDH and women’s empowerment in fertility has not been figured out yet. This study was conducted to assess correlation between social determinants of health and women’s empowerment in reproductive decisions.</p><p><strong>MATERIAL & METHODS:</strong> This was a descriptive-correlation study on 400 women who attended health centers affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran-Iran. Four hundred women were recruited using multistage cluster sampling method. The tools for data collection were 6 questionnaires including; 1) socio-demographic characteristics 2) women's empowerment in reproductive decision-making, 3) perceived social support, 4) self-esteem, 5) marital satisfaction, 6) access to health services. Data were analyzed by SPSS-17 and using Pearson and Spearman correlation tests.</p><p><strong>RESULTS: </strong>Results showed 82.54 ± 14.00 (Mean±SD) of total score 152 of women’s empowerment in reproductive decision making. All structural and intermediate variables were correlated with women’s empowerment in reproductive decisions. The highest correlations were demonstrated between education (among structural determinants; r= 0.44, P< 0.001), and Self-esteem (among intermediate determinants; r= 0.34, P< 0.001) with women’s empowerment in fertility decision making.</p><strong>CONCLUSION: </strong>Social determinants of health have a significant correlation with women's empowerment in reproductive decision-making.
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Moss, Pamela, and Isabel Dyck. "Inquiry into Environment and Body: Women, Work, and Chronic Illness." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14, no. 6 (December 1996): 737–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d140737.
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The recent call for the reorientation of analysis in medical geography to more critical approaches has been met with both enthusiasm and caution. Critical theories of health and health care services are emerging, which complement the well-developed focus on the spatial aspects of disease and service delivery. Yet in reconceptualising the links between place, space, and health, care must be taken in theorising in context experiences of health and illness. By context we mean the richly textured social formation wherein social relations are threads of a tapestry woven together. One topic which lends itself to such an inquiry is how material and discursive bodies combine to create identities for women with chronic illness around issues of gender and (dis)ability within the context of the wider social political economy. In this paper, we propose a feminist political economic analysis of environment and body as an addition to the critical frameworks emerging in medical geography. We first discuss what a radical body politics entails conceptually. Then we make suggestions with regard to undertaking such inquiry, using in illustration empirical work on women's reshaping of their environment in response to chronic illness. This type of investigation extends previous work on the formation of women's identities, experiences of chronic illness, and the materiality of everyday life. Last, we recast the concepts of environment, body, and identity formation while maintaining a commitment to the fluidity of conceptual and material boundaries.
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Masanyiwa, Zacharia S., Anke Niehof, and Catrien J. A. M. Termeer. "Gender perspectives on decentralisation and service users’ participation in rural Tanzania." Journal of Modern African Studies 52, no. 1 (February 4, 2014): 95–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x13000815.
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ABSTRACTIncreasing participation in decision-making processes by service users is one of the objectives of decentralisation reforms in Tanzania. The argument is that decentralisation enhances participation by all sections of the community, and by women in particular, and results in decisions that better reflect local needs. This paper examines the impact of decentralisation reforms on service users' participation for delivery of water and health services in rural Tanzania, using a gender perspective and principal-agent theory. The paper investigates how decentralisation has fostered spaces for participation and how men and women use these spaces, and identifies factors that constrain or encourage women's participation. It shows that decentralisation reforms have created spaces for service users' participation at the local level. Participation in these spaces, however, differs between men and women, and is influenced by the socio-cultural norms within the household and community. Men have gained more leverage than women to exercise their agency as principals. Women's participation is contributing to addressing practical gender needs, but strategic gender needs have been less adequately addressed because gendered power relations have been largely untouched by the reforms.
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Widyaningsih, Dyan, Elza Samantha Elmira, and Andi Misbahul Pratiwi. "Poor Women’s Access to Antenatal Care and Childbirth Services in Indonesia: Case Study in Five Districts." Jurnal Perempuan 24, no. 3 (September 12, 2019): 233. http://dx.doi.org/10.34309/jp.v24i3.345.
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<p>The health of pregnant women often becomes an indicator of human development. On the other hand, the fact of the high maternal mortality rate, raises questions related to the government’s attention to the health of pregnant women, especially women in poor areas. This article focuses on poor women’s access to health services for antenatal care and childbirth in five regencies in Indonesia. The aspects studied include the availability of health services for antenatal care and childbirth, poor women’s access to these services, and supporting factors/actors and barriers to poor women’s access to health services. This article showed that the availability of health facilities is not always in line with the increased awareness of pregnant women to access these services. Road infrastructure condition, distance, and cost to access health service still remain a challenge. Meanwhile, the policy of incentives and disincentives to traditional birth attendants has an influence on the increasing number of pregnant women who check their pregnancies and childbirth at health facilities. Thus, health issues of pregnant women and safe childbirth require a different effort. Aspects of the local context and supporting infrastructure also require serious attention.</p><p> </p>
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Somlai, Anton M., Timothy G. Heckman, Kristin Hackl, Michael Morgan, and Dana Welsh. "Developmental Stages and Spiritual Coping Responses among Economically Impoverished Women Living with HIV Disease." Journal of Pastoral Care 52, no. 3 (September 1998): 227–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234099805200303.
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Identifies environmental markers, situational appraisals, perceived ability to mediate situations and outcomes, primary coping strategies, and purposes served by religion and spirituality in 10 HIV-positive women recruited from a regional health care clinic. Findings indicated that the women experienced a disintegration of family during their early developmental years, yielding feelings of hopelessness and isolation; that their sexual development was marked by rape and incest, and their early adulthood was characterized by failed relationships, pregnancies, drugs, and alcohol. Reports that the women's religious influences were predominantly maternal and provided a model for intercessory prayer. Notes that prior to their diagnosis of HIV, participants described their coping as escapist, while after diagnosis they believed there was a divine intercession renewing their spiritual growth and connectedness with others. Reports that the women's personal spirituality was greatly influenced by prayer, television ministries, and reading the Bible. Suggests that interventions that actively recruit women into social support services, health care systems, and faith congregations are needed and that television ministries may serve as access points for connecting women with necessary services.
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Sibbritt, David, Jon Adams, and Anne F. Young. "The Characteristics of Middle Aged Australian Women who Consult Acupuncturists." Acupuncture in Medicine 25, no. 1-2 (June 2007): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/aim.25.1-2.22.
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Background Although an increase in the use of acupuncture in recent years has been identified, there are few studies that focus attention upon the characteristics of acupuncture users. This survey aimed at providing a first step towards addressing this significant research gap. Methods This study was conducted as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, and examined the characteristics of acupuncture users among middle aged Australian women between 50 and 55 years old. Data were collected on demographic measures, health status and health service use. Results The paper reports on 11 202 middle aged women, surveyed in 2001. We estimate that 4.5% of middle aged women consult an acupuncturist. Women who consult an acupuncturist are less likely to be married or living in a de facto relationship, are more likely to have had a major personal illness in the previous year, to have suffered from a variety of symptoms or have significantly lower scores (ie poorer health) on all eight dimensions of the SF-36 health-related quality of life scale. Women who use acupuncture are also higher users of ‘conventional’ health services. Conclusion While the development of a research base and clinical applications for acupuncture are ongoing, health professionals should be aware that acupuncture is currently being used by large numbers of middle aged women. In addition, given the relatively higher prevalence of acupuncture use reported in our study, it is important that further research explores acupuncture use in more detail and the relationship between women's health issues and their use and experience of acupuncture.
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Mowbray, Carol T., Sandra E. Herman, and Kelly L. Hazel. "Gender and Serious Mental Illness: A Feminist Perspective." Psychology of Women Quarterly 16, no. 1 (March 1992): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00243.x.
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Perhaps in reaction to criticisms of “woman as problem” formulations, psychological literature has nearly ignored women with serious mental illnesses (SMI), although epidemiological research indicates that women are overrepresented in these diagnoses. Data are presented on characteristics, functioning, and services received for a sample of nearly 2,500 SMI clients. Statistical clustering of clients with similar profiles produced four out of six clusters with significant differences in proportions of female versus male clients represented. The results indicate that the extent to which SMI clients display gender-related symptoms and behaviors is a significant factor in clinician perceptions and in service utilization. However, results also show substantial overlap in gender composition of the clusters. Discussion centers on the quality of care and appropriateness of services for female clients. Future research is suggested, utilizing a feminist understanding of women's diversity and of sociopolitical factors related to mental health.
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Long, Clive, and Fiona Mason. "Improving health and wellbeing in women's secure services: physical activity, appearance, self-care and body image." Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care 7, no. 4 (December 9, 2014): 178–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eihsc-10-2013-0037.
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Purpose – Lifestyle change to improve physical health is a significant challenge in secure psychiatric hospitals for women. In addition to factors that contribute to an obesogenic environments body image, self-care, self-esteem, and motivational problems compound efforts to increase physical activity and to lose weight. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Two elements of a comprehensive programme to improve physical health and mental wellbeing are discussed. The first describes the development of a unique role of self-care and body image therapists and an evaluation of the effects of treatment. The second describes initiatives to assess the environmental and therapeutic milieu contingencies that impact on physical activity and to increase engagement in exercise through motivational strategies. Findings – Research within the current settings has resulted in a validation of the role of the self-care and body image therapist. Other evaluations have described the environmental contingencies that impact on physical activity along with strategies to increase exercise participation. Originality/value – While much has to be learnt about how to translate awareness of the value of a healthy lifestyle for women into positive behaviour change the programme described represents part of a comprehensive and long term attempt to evaluate and improve the physical wellbeing of women in secure care.
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Russo, Nancy Felipe, Hortensia Amaro, and Michael Winter. "The Use of Inpatient Mental Health Services by Hispanic Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 11, no. 4 (December 1987): 427–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1987.tb00916.x.
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Concern has been expressed about underrepresentation of Hispanics in mental health facilities, but little has been done to examine Hispanic gender differences in the use of such facilities. This descriptive study provides a broader and more detailed profile of Hispanic women's use of selected inpatient mental health facilities than is currently available. It presents gender differences in number, percent, and rate per 100,000 population for Hispanic and nonHispanic inpatient admissions with respect to age, marital status, and diagnosis. Results suggest that women use these inpatient facilities less than men, and this gender difference is greater for Hispanics. This greater gender difference in admissions among Hispanics was found across age and marital status categories, but not in all diagnoses. Regardless of ethnicity, men had higher admission rates for schizophrenia and alcohol-related disorders, but not for affective disorders. Marital status was related to diagnosis differently for Hispanics and nonHispanics. The gender difference in favor of higher rates for men with schizophrenia was not found for married nonHispanics. The gender difference in favor of higher rates for women with affective disorders was not found for separated/divorced Hispanic women. These findings point to the importance of and need for psychological research that examines the relationship between gender and sex roles and mental health, the inclusion of the resultant knowledge in mental health education and training, and the application of that knowledge to the design of mental health services.
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Rogers, Beatrice Lorge, and Nadia Youssef. "The Importance of Women's Involvement in Economic Activities in the Improvement of Child Nutrition and Health." Food and Nutrition Bulletin 10, no. 3 (September 1988): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/156482658801000310.
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Rogers and Youssef believe that nutrition programmes “need to recognize explicitly that nutritional problems often have their origins in social and economic systems, and that these problems can be solved only by bringing about changes in these systems, particularly at the household level.” They state that social services are suffering from a shrinking of government resources in developing countries, and stress that women must draw on their own resources to better their nutritional and health statue Their proposals promote not only more entrepreneurship for women but also organizations of women, including unions. They also discuss the development of co-operative child-care, which would help women to conserve some of their resources. Rogers and Youssef assert that women's groups started for economic purposes can be successful forums for nutrition and health education, and they provide examples of groups that have carried out all of these functions.
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Parajuli, Pradip. "Gender Disparities- Issues on Sexual and Reproductive Health; Knowledge and Practices on Decision Making." Patan Pragya 7, no. 1 (December 31, 2020): 160–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/pragya.v7i1.35207.
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Sexual and Reproductive health rights are key human rights instruments. Since last few decades, sexual and reproductive health and rights has been recognized as a major topic in the international health and development agenda. Sexual and reproductive rights of women became recognized as universal human rights in 1994, violations of which happen in some reproductive health areas including gender concern. But in the developing countries like ours, patriarchal society rooted deeply that male control over women's mobility, sexuality and reproduction. Men’s control over women’s mobility like imposition of Parda, restriction on leaving domestic space, strict separation of public and private space and limits on interaction between the sexes. Male controls over women’s sexuality like women are obliged to provide sexual services to their men when they desire, the legal and moral values restrict women’s sexuality outside marriage, men may force their women in sex trade. Even in reproduction male control over them. Men also control over women’s reproductive power in many societies by no freedom to decide how many children they want and when, cannot decide to use the contraceptive or terminate the pregnancy. In most of the South Asian countries women are forced to give birth to a son or her place is not secured so she is compelled to give several births if she cannot produce son. Sexual and reproductive health and rights are important rights in themselves, but can also greatly enhance possibilities for empowering girls and women and for achieving gender equality. Reproductive health stresses people rights to sexuality, reproduction, and family planning, and the information to actualize these rights, which has been inseparably linked to development. We examine how sexual and reproductive health and rights interventions can have positive and lasting impacts not only on the health outcomes of girls and women, but can also enable women’s access to opportunities across social, economic and political life. Many efforts had been done in these issues nationally and internationally.
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Krieg, Brigette, and Diane Martz. "Meeting the Health Care Needs of Elderly Métis Women in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan." International Journal of Indigenous Health 4, no. 1 (June 3, 2013): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijih41200812313.
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There is limited data, including health data, specific to the Métis population in Canada. As a result, the health issues and concerns of Métis communities—in particular Métis women—have largely been ignored in health research and in program and policy development. To address this dearth of information, a community-based research committee made up of Métis women initiated the Buffalo Narrows Métis Women’s Health Research Project. The goals of the project were to investigate the health care needs of elderly women and their caregivers in a northern and remote Saskatchewan Métis community. The project looked at barriers to health care service access in terms of accessibility, affordability, availability, acceptability and accommodation. Results showed that elderly Métis women experienced multiple, interconnected barriers to accessing health care services, making it difficult to isolate one variable as being more important than another. However, the Métis women interviewed did identify a number of recommendations to help in meeting the complex service needs of elderly women in the community. If implemented, these recommendations would help to ease the pressure put on extended family members who act as informal caregivers to elderly residents as well as giving elderly patients more independence and improving elderly women’s access to primary health care services.
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Pinkham, Sophie, Claudia Stoicescu, and Bronwyn Myers. "Developing Effective Health Interventions for Women Who Inject Drugs: Key Areas and Recommendations for Program Development and Policy." Advances in Preventive Medicine 2012 (2012): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/269123.
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Women who inject drugs face multiple gender-specific health risks and barriers to healthcare access. These gendered factors may contribute to elevated rates of HIV for this population. Though few countries systematically collect gender-disaggregated data related to injecting drug use, evidence indicates that there are large populations of women who inject drugs and who are in need of improved health services, including HIV prevention. Research on the effectiveness of interventions specifically tailored for women who inject drugs, along with the experience of programs working with this subpopulation, suggests that HIV risk practices need to be addressed within the larger context of women's lives. Multifaceted interventions that address relationship dynamics, housing, employment, and the needs of children may have more success in reducing risky practices than interventions that focus exclusively on injecting practices and condom use. Improved sexual and reproductive healthcare for women who use drugs is an area in need of development and should be better integrated into basic harm reduction programs.
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Smith, Megan V., and Carolyn M. Mazure. "Mental Health and Wealth: Depression, Gender, Poverty, and Parenting." Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 17, no. 1 (May 7, 2021): 181–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-071219-022710.
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Depression is a common and debilitating condition that adversely affects functioning and the capacity to work and establish economic stability. Women are disproportionately burdened by depression, and low-income pregnant and parenting women have particularly high rates of depression and often lack access to treatment. As depression can be treated, it is a modifiable risk factor for poor economic outcomes for women, and thus for children and families. Recent national and state health care policy changes offer the opportunity for community-based psychological and economic interventions that can reduce the number of pregnant and parenting women with clinically significant depressive symptoms. Moreover, there is strong evidence that in addition to benefiting women's well-being, such reforms bolster children's emotional and social development and learning and help families rise out of poverty. This review summarizes the mental health and economic literature regarding how maternal depression perpetuates intergenerational poverty and discusses recommendations regarding policies to treat maternal depression in large-scale social services systems.
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Viken, Berit, Anne Lyberg, and Elisabeth Severinsson. "Maternal Health Coping Strategies of Migrant Women in Norway." Nursing Research and Practice 2015 (2015): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/878040.
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The aim of the study was to explore the maternal health coping strategies of migrant women in Norway. The ethnic and cultural background of the Norwegian population have become increasingly diverse. A challenge in practice is to adjust maternal health services to migrant women’s specific needs. Previous studies have revealed that migrant women have difficulty achieving safe pregnancies and childbirths. Data were obtained by means of 17 semistructured interviews with women from South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Qualitative content analysis was employed. One overall theme is as follows:keeping original traditions while at the same time being willing to integrate into Norwegian society, and four themes emerged as follows:balancing their sense of belongingness; seeking information and support from healthcare professionals; being open to new opportunitiesandfocusing on feeling safe in the new country. The results were interpreted in the light of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model. To provide quality care, healthcare professionals should focus on the development of migrant women’s capabilities. Adaptation of maternal health services for culturally diverse migrant women also requires a culturally sensitive approach on the part of healthcare professionals.
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Gray, Gwen. "How Australia Came to Have a National Women's Health Policy." International Journal of Health Services 28, no. 1 (January 1998): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/pcpl-8xa9-wkxu-d1a3.
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A National Women's Health Policy was launched in Australia in 1989, and Australia became the only country to have a comprehensive policy on women's health. The policy is intended to provide a framework for decisionmaking in both mainstream and separate women's health services. The author examines the forces and factors that led to the formulation and adoption of the policy, then addresses the question of why Australia is alone in choosing a national policy as a focus for women's health action. A number of key influences, either absent or weaker in comparable countries, worked together to facilitate policy development. The activities of women working in a number of arenas coincided with the election of relatively supportive governments, creation of women's policy machinery in bureaucracies, employment of feminists in key positions, and opportunities for policy expansion afforded by federalism. These influences, within the Australian ideological context of strong support for social liberalism, account for the country's distinctive policy position.
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Abdulkadir, Muhammad, Ruslan Rainis, Alshammari Eissa Zaidan, Murtala Uba Muhammad, and Yamuna A. Kani. "Pattern and Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Jigawa State, Nigeria." Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 4, no. 7 (November 24, 2019): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v4i7.305.
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One of the important goals of launching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is maternal health. Nigeria was not able to achieved the target of reduction the maternal mortality as set by MDGs as a target. Nigeria has 37 state and Jigawa state is one of those state. The state has poor indices of health indicator, the maternal mortality is high and also antenatal visit in the state is not encouraging. The objective of the study was to find out the degree (extent) of the usage of the services of the maternal health care and to examine the role of socio-demographic variables and antenatal visit on the uses of the services of maternal health system available in the state. Logistic regression (Binary), chi- square, and bivariate analysis were used and the study used the data collected from the state ministry of health. The study utilized the data for two year (2017-2018) . The finding of this study revealed that socio-economic factors greatly influence the uses of maternal health care services. Level of education (Women’s education) influences the maternal health care utilization. The study found that, the hospital based delivery, antenatal care visit utilization and seeking service after delivery varies among the women with the different level of education, age at marriage, women’s age and residence of women. The study revealed that, the women’s with the high level of education (literate) is 2 times compared to illiterate women likely to use antenatal services (OR=1.97, ANC1.95, full ANC p<0.01), also in terms of hospital delivery literate women is (OR=1.52, p<0.01) or 1.53 times. Women’s education encouragement and support should be advocated because is one among the many strategies to improve the utilisation of the services of maternal health.
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Soltani, H., P. J. Furness, M. A. Arden, K. McSeveny, C. Garland, H. Sustar, and A. Dearden. "Women's and Midwives' Perspectives on the Design of a Text Messaging Support for Maternal Obesity Services: An Exploratory Study." Journal of Obesity 2012 (2012): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/835464.
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This study was aimed to explore women’s and midwives’ views on the use of mobile technology in supporting obese pregnant women with healthy lifestyle choices. A purposive sample of 14 women and midwives participated in four focus groups in Doncaster, UK. A content analysis of the transcripts from the first focus group led to the emergence of three main constructs with associated subcategories including Benefits (“modernising,” “motivating,” “reminding,” and “reducing” the sense of isolation), Risks and Limitations (possibility of “being offensive,” “creating pressure or guilt,” and “being influenced by mood”), and Service Delivery (making it “available to all pregnant women,” giving attention to the “message tone” and development of “message content”). They also suggested the use of other modalities such as web-based services for weight management during pregnancy. Based on the above results a text messaging service was developed and presented to the 2nd focus group participants who confirmed the positive views from the first focus group on the use of the text messaging as being supportive and informative. The participants also welcomed “women’s engagement and choice” in deciding the content, timing and frequency of messages. The results informed the development of a text messaging service to support maternal obesity management. The implementation and acceptability of this service requires further investigation.
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Wang, Xiaofei, and Jiehua Lu. "Health and health care disparities among women in mainland China." Asian Education and Development Studies 6, no. 2 (April 10, 2017): 166–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aeds-01-2016-0003.
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Purpose Women’s health is considered a big public health issue, impacting personal well-being, family reproduction, and society’s development. Since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, major improvements in women’s social status and health have been made. However, far less has been achieved with respect to gender equality and women still face health disparities. The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of health and health care disparities among women and their determinants in China today. Design/methodology/approach This paper used the Statistical Yearbook of Health and Family Planning 2014, the 2010 Women’s Social Status Survey and 2010 census data from the National Bureau of Statistics to give an overall description of disparity in health care and health outcome facing women. Findings Progress in health is not equally shared by the female population, and the differences in women’s health by region and in urban and rural areas are considerable. The existing health disparities are still faced by women in terms of life expectancy, hazardous working environment, and health care services. As to gender differences among the elderly aged 60+, men have better health status compared to women. In addition, women are more financially dependent on other family members for the main source of daily living, reflecting their economic disadvantages. Originality/value This study gives a comprehensive and the latest overview of trends of women’s health progress, disparities in health care, and health outcomes both in female population and between genders by using three data sources.
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Keitt, Sarah K., Eileen M. Resnick, Viviana R. Simon, Sara O. Iskikian, and Sherry A. Marts. "Behavior and Obesity in Women Across the Life Span." Journal of Investigative Medicine 56, no. 6 (August 1, 2008): 830–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2310/jim.0b013e31817c484b.
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In October 2006, the Society for Women's Health Research convened a workshop that focused on the behavioral and social influences on obesity in women across the life span with an emphasis on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and mental health. The purposes of the workshop were to examine the current state of the science related to behavioral influences on obesity in women across the life span; to determine the mechanisms, methods, and technical advances required for research progress in this area; and to develop an agenda for future research on behavioral influences on obesity in women. The workshop participants included psychologists, social scientists, clinicians, health educators, health services researchers, nutrition specialists, and epidemiologists, among others, who have expertise in obesity at critical life stages in women (childhood, adolescence, pregnancy, menopause, and older age). Discussions during the workshop focused on 4 specific topics: (1) the relationship between mental or emotional health and obesity in women; (2) the impact of social, cultural, and environmental factors on obesity in women; (3) the improvement of obesity research methodology; and (4) the development of obesity prevention and intervention strategies. Based on these discussions, participants proposed recommendations for future research.
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H. Abdelati, Inaam, Om Hashim M. Saadoon, and Amal Roshdi Ahmed Mostafa. "Quality of cesarean section nursing care and its reflection up-on women's satisfaction with labor experience." International Journal of Advanced Nursing Studies 8, no. 1 (May 5, 2019): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijans.v8i1.27149.
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Women satisfaction is a crucial predictor for maintaining and monitoring the quality of health care and can inform service development and delivery.Aim: To evaluate the quality of cesarean nursing care at hospital of Mansura University, the outcomes of it preserve ad-vanceandsupportqualityof care and womensatisfaction. By using a descriptive design the study conducted at obstetrics and gynecology department in Mansoura university hospital. On a total of 200women had undergoingelective cesarean section operation. Data collection by, structured interviewed questionnaire, observationchecklist and satisfactionassessment scale. Results; Findings indicated that most of studied women had received a complete care during intraoperative & immediate post-operative 92.5% & 95.0% respectively. Meanwhile, 80.0% & 62.5% of them didn't received health education and emotional support also , the higher percentage of studied women were satisfied with general environment, cleanliness, communication and physical care 75.0%, 75.0%, 65.0% and 58.0% respectively. While, 60.0% of them were dissatisfied with continuity of care. Regarding involving in decision making, all of studied sample100% were dissatisfied. Finally there was a positive association of quality of CS nursing care with the level of women's satisfaction with (p=<0.05) .Conclusion: The current study indicated that, there are several factors that affected on women's satisfaction. higher percentages of them were satisfied with general environment, cleanliness, communication and physical care and dissatisfied with psychological care, continuity of care and involvement in decision making. There was a highly statistically associationof women’s satisfaction with CS nursing care offered. Recommendation: Woman satisfaction is an imperative health care outcome its assessment is recommended tobe a part of hospital quality ofcare monitoring and improvement programs.
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Yeganeh, Ladan, Kate Johnston-Ataata, Amanda J. Vincent, Jacinthe Flore, Renata Kokanović, Helena Teede, and Jacqueline A. Boyle. "Co-designing an Early Menopause Digital Resource: Model for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Translation." Seminars in Reproductive Medicine 38, no. 04/05 (September 2020): 315–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726273.
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AbstractEarly menopause/premature ovarian insufficiency is associated with negative health impacts, unmet information needs, delayed diagnosis, and variation in management. Co-designed digital resources for women with early menopause/premature ovarian insufficiency and health practitioners were developed to address information needs and support management. A five-phase mixed methods multidisciplinary research, co-design and translation process comprised: (1) survey/interviews with women and health practitioners to explore early menopause/premature ovarian insufficiency needs, experiences, and management; (2) appraisal of clinical guidelines to develop management algorithms; (3) digital resource development (https://healthtalkaustralia.org/early-menopause-experiences-and-perspectives-of-women-and-health-professionals/; (4) evaluation; and (5) dissemination/implementation. The digital resources included audio/video clips of women with early menopause/premature ovarian insufficiency and health practitioners providing early menopause/premature ovarian insufficiency care, a question prompt list, health practitioner algorithms, information links, and a list of services for women, achieving high satisfaction ratings from women and health practitioners. Engaging our stakeholder partners, multimodal dissemination has included community and conference presentations, social media, lay and professional publications, and webinars. This project provides a model for successful interdisciplinary co-design research translation to improve women's health.
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Oluoch-Aridi, Jackline, Mary B. Adam, Francis Wafula, and Gilbert K’okwaro. "Eliciting women’s preferences for place of child birth at a peri-urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya: A discrete choice experiment." PLOS ONE 15, no. 12 (December 10, 2020): e0242149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242149.
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Objective Maternal and newborn mortality rates are high in peri-urban areas in cities in Kenya, yet little is known about what drives women’s decisions on where to deliver. This study aimed at understanding women’s preferences on place of childbirth and how sociodemographic factors shape these preferences. Methods This study used a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to quantify the relative importance of attributes on women’s choice of place of childbirth within a peri-urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya. Participants were women aged 18–49 years, who had delivered at six health facilities. The DCE consisted of six attributes: cleanliness, availability of medical equipment and drug supplies, attitude of healthcare worker, cost of delivery services, the quality of clinical services, distance and an opt-out alternative. Each woman received eight questions. A conditional logit model established the relative strength of preferences. A mixed logit model was used to assess how women’s preferences for selected attributes changed based on their sociodemographic characteristics. Results 411 women participated in the Discrete Choice Experiment, a response rate of 97.6% and completed 20,080 choice tasks. Health facility cleanliness was found to have the strongest association with choice of health facility (β = 1.488 p<0.001) followed respectively by medical equipment and supplies availability (β = 1.435 p<0.001). The opt-out alternative (β = 1.424 p<0.001) came third. The attitude of the health care workers (β = 1.347, p<0.001), quality of clinical services (β = 0.385, p<0.001), distance (β = 0.339, p<0.001) and cost (β = 0.0002 p<0.001) were ranked 4th to 7th respectively. Women who were younger and were the main income earners having a stronger preference for clean health facilities. Older married women had stronger preference for availability of medical equipment and kind healthcare workers. Conclusions Women preferred both technical and process indicators of quality of care. DCE’s can lead to the development of person-centered strategies that take into account the preferences of women to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes.
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Sanogo, N’doh Ashken, and Sanni Yaya. "Wealth Status, Health Insurance, and Maternal Health Care Utilization in Africa: Evidence from Gabon." BioMed Research International 2020 (January 11, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4036830.
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Background. To achieve the universal health coverage among other Sustainable Development Goals, African countries have shown the commitment by implementing strategies to improve access and coverage of health care services whose access is still very low. The achievement of universal health care requires the provision and availability of an adequate financing system. This study explored the wealth-related association of compulsory health insurance on maternal health care utilization in Gabon. Methods. The study used the 6th round of Gabon Demographic and Health Surveys (GDHSs)—2012 data to explore three outcome measures of maternal health care utilization extracted on number of antenatal care (ANC) visits during pregnancy, place of birth delivery, and postnatal health care. The dependent variable was women with health insurance coverage against those without. Logistic regression and propensity scoring matching analysed associations of health insurance coverage on women’s utilization of health care. Results. Mean (+/− SD) age of women respondents of reproductive age was 29 years (9.9). The proportion of at least 4 antenatal care visits was 69.2%, facility-based delivery was 84.7%, and postnatal care utilization was 67.9%. The analysis of data showed disparities in maternal health care services utilization. The GDHS showed maternal age, and geographical region was significantly associated with maternal health care service utilization. A high proportion of urban dwellers and Christian women used maternal health care services. According to the wealth index, maternal health services utilization was higher in women from wealthy households compared to lower households wealth index (ANC (Conc. Index = 0.117; p≤0.001), facility-based delivery (Conc. Index = 0.069; p≤0.001), and postnatal care (Conc. Index = 0.075; p≤0.001), respectively). With regard to health care insurance coverage, women with health insurance were more likely to use ANC and facility-based delivery services than those without (concentration indices for ANC and facility-based delivery were statistically significant; ANC: z-stat = 2.69; p=0.007; Conc. Index: 0.125 vs. 0.096 and facility-based delivery: z-stat = 3.38; p=0.001; Conc. Index: 0.076 vs. 0.053, respectively). Conclusion. Women enrollment in health insurance and improved household’s financial status can improve key maternal health services utilization.
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Mahmood, Naushin, and Durr-e. Nayab. "An Analysis of Reproductive Health Issues in Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 39, no. 4II (December 1, 2000): 675–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v39i4iipp.675-693.
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Population programmes in many developing countries have emphasised on family planning services driven largely by numbers and demographic targets. With the advent of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, it has been recognised to move beyond a narrow focus on family planning to a more comprehensive concern of reproductive health oriented towards meeting the needs of individuals and families. This advocated shift in population and development strategy, especially in health emphasises that services be offered to women, men and adolescents with a special focus on fulfilling women’s health needs, safeguarding their reproductive rights and involving men as equal partners in meeting the goal of responsible parenthood [United Nations (1995)]. In response to ICPD’s mandate, Pakistan’s population programme has increasingly been focussed on various aspects of reproductive health and is in the process of broadening the scope of services for a transition to reproductive health without losing focus on achieving fertility reduction goal. In this regard, the government has adopted a comprehensive population and development policy incorporating an array of reproductive health services and has integrated population and health departments and their activities in dealing with RH problems. Under the consideration that the revised programme can not simultaneously address all of the RH problems, an integrated National Reproductive Health Services Package has been developed to provide services to eligible women, men and adolescents [Pakistan (1999)]. The major components of RH package include:
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Azizova, Nodira Mannapovna, and Lobarkhon Kadirjanovna Azizova. "IMPLICATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ON RURAL WOMEN’S WELFARE: CASE OF UZBEKISTAN." Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University 4, no. 5 (October 27, 2020): 252–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.52297/2181-1466/2020/4/5/13.
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Background. Lack of water supply and sanitation infrastructure in rural areas affects people’s health, welfare and living conditions, negatively impacts the rural environment, and can stall rural development and prosperity. Improving equitable and sustainable access to safe and improved water supply and sanitation in rural areas is therefore an important national development objective. This article presents to what extend the welfare level of the rural women in Uzbekistan correlates with socio-economic factors such as access to water supply and sanitation services in Uzbekistan. Methods. This article is based on comparative analysis of the gender aspects of welfare of rural women in Bukhara region. The gender aspects assessment of the water supply and sanitation sector identifies that rural women experience the unequal access to infrastructure in comparison with urban population and urban women. The utilizing of the concept of analysis based on identification of inequalities by going “beyond income, beyond averages and beyond today” demonstrates that there is no direct impact of the socio-economic factors on poverty rate of the family [1;6].
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Almasoad, Hanan. "A conceived proposal for the contribution of the social services in the development of women’s awareness of their health, psychological and social appearances during advanced age." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences [JASS] 6, no. 2 (January 1, 2016): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jass.vol7iss1pp113-132.
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The study aims to identify the extent of women’s awareness of the meaning of advanced age and the nature of the psycho-social aspects of health that they face in the advanced stages of life to come up with a suggested proposal for the contribution of social services to the development of women’s awareness of aspects of advanced life stages from a cognitive perspective. The samples of the study are women older than 40 who are either in their perimenopause or menopause phase. The size of the sample is (208) woman; (104) women from the health center Al-Olaya and (104) women from the health center in Al-Suleimaniah. The study results showed a decline in their awareness that this stage in their age constitutes the flow and movement phase (productivity and contribution) versus recession and showed a likely rate of (0.22 %) and came last in the results. Results of the study also showed low response rates regarding health and physical aspects such as the occurrence of hot flashes (12%), reduced fertility (9.95), and osteoporosis (7.5%). These rates underscore the lack of awareness of the respondents concerning these variables. On the other hand, the study showed a high awareness of the respondents with respect to psychological aspects such as the awareness of the feeling of neglect and lack of interest by others scored highest. Society’s perception of advanced age is one of the social realities which received (7.13 %) by respondents. The study recommends the need to activate the contribution of social services in the increase of women›s awareness of health, psychological and social manifestations of menopause and beyond
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Norman, Wendy V., Barbara Hestrin, and Royce Dueck. "Access to Complex Abortion Care Service and Planning Improved through a Toll-Free Telephone Resource Line." Obstetrics and Gynecology International 2014 (2014): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/913241.
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Background. Providing equitable access to the full range of reproductive health services over wide geographic areas presents significant challenges to any health system. We present a review of a service provision model which has provided improved access to abortion care; support for complex issues experienced by women seeking nonjudgmental family planning health services; and a mechanism to collect information on access barriers. The toll-free pregnancy options service (POS) of British Columbia Women’s Hospital and Health Centre sought to improve access to services and overcome barriers experienced by women seeking abortion.Methods. We describe the development and implementation of a province-wide toll-free telephone counseling and access facilitation service, including establishment of a provincial network of local abortion service providers in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1998 to 2010.Results. Over 2000 women annually access service via the POS line, networks of care providers are established and linked to central support, and central program planners receive timely information on new service gaps and access barriers.Conclusion. This novel service has been successful in addressing inequities and access barriers identified as priorities before service establishment. The service provided unanticipated benefits to health care planning and monitoring of provincial health care related service delivery and gaps. This model for low cost health service delivery may realize similar benefits when applied to other health care systems where access and referral barriers exist.
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Montanari, Ingalill. "Europe, Women, and Work: Is the “Adult Worker” Ideal Achieved?" International Journal of Health Services 39, no. 2 (April 2009): 245–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/hs.39.2.b.
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Against the background of an overall increase in female labor force participation in Europe, this article presents a comparative analysis of the development of the extent and quality of women's participation in market work over the last 15 years in relation to selected sectoral and, with regard to the service sector, subsectoral sites in which women perform their market work. This is an explorative test of the utility of the theoretical perspective that focuses on the gendered division of total necessary work in society, production as well as reproduction, in order to explain gender inequality. Countries examined are the “old E.U.” member states in various constellations. Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Labor Organization, European Social Survey, and Luxembourg Income Study are used.
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Jones, Hendrée E., Irma Kirtadze, David Otiashvili, Kevin E. O’Grady, Keryn Murphy, William Zule, Evgeny Krupitsky, and Wendee M. Wechsberg. "Process and Product in Cross-Cultural Treatment Research: Development of a Culturally Sensitive Women-Centered Substance Use Intervention in Georgia." Journal of Addiction 2014 (2014): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/163603.
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Women who inject drugs (WID) are highly marginalized and stigmatized and experience ongoing discrimination in Georgia. Few opportunities exist for WID to receive publicly funded treatment for substance use disorders. The IMEDI (Investigating Methods for Enhancing Development in Individuals) project was developed in response to the need for women-specific and women-centered treatment services. This paper described our approach to understanding the Georgian culture—and WID within that culture—so that we could integrate two interventions for substance use found effective in other Western and non-Western cultures and to outline how we refined and adapted our integrated intervention to yield a comprehensive women-centered intervention for substance use. Reinforcement Based Treatment (RBT) and the Women’s CoOp (WC) were adapted and refined based on in-depth interviews with WID (N=55) and providers of health services (N=34) to such women and focus groups [2 with WID (N=15) and 2 with health service providers (N=12)]. The resulting comprehensive women-centered intervention, RBT+WC, was then pretested and further refined in a sample of 20 WID. Results indicated positive pre-post changes in urine screening results and perceived needs for both RBT+WC and a case management control condition. The approach to treatment adaptation and the revised elements of RBT+WC are presented and discussed.
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Peacock-Chambers, Elizabeth, Mary T. Paterno, Daniel Kiely, Tinamarie Fioroni, and Peter D. Friedmann. "3050 Engagement in Out-Patient Services among Pregnant and Postpartum Women with Opioid Addiction: A Qualitative Study." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 3, s1 (March 2019): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2019.325.
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: This study aims to understand the factors influencing engagement with out-patient services from pregnancy to 1 year postpartum among women in recovery from opioid use disorders (OUD). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews and a brief survey with 20 mothers in OUD recovery recruited from health care and community organizations in Western MA. Transcripts were coded by two independent coders and analyzed using a qualitative descriptive approach. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The average duration of any addiction treatment among the 20 participants was 5.6 years with 80% receiving medication-assisted treatment during a pregnancy. Approximately two-thirds experienced relapse during pregnancy or the first year postpartum. We identified 3 themes elucidating women’s experiences around service engagement: “How I see myself” (personal development), “How services see me” (service delivery quality), and “Are you with me?” Personal development included response to past trauma, coping strategies and self-advocacy, and adjusting to parenthood. Service delivery quality was influenced by service design, efficacy of individual providers, and cultural norms (organizational and societal). In the final theme, intersection of individual and service-level factors influenced the degree and quality of the women’s experience engaging with services. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Women describe successful engagement when they experience service providers as being emotionally supportive, delivering relevant services, and advocating on their behalf. To best support and engage families affected by OUD, relevant and timely services should be linked with compassionate delivery.
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Felsman, Irene C. "Supporting Health and Well-Being for Resettled Refugee Women: The Global Women’s Group." Creative Nursing 22, no. 4 (2016): 226–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1078-4535.22.4.226.
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Women refugees arrive in the United States often having experienced extreme levels of poverty, deprivation, and violence, including gender-based violence, which can severely affect their physical and psychological health and well-being. A women’s group was initiated to improve the health and well-being of refugee women in Durham, North Carolina, through a collaboratively designed, culturally appropriate health literacy intervention for women based on mutually identified needs; to empower them to seek preventive health services and screening through knowledge and skills about health needs and access to care; and to create an environment for the development of a supportive social/peer network for the prevention of social isolation and mental health issues related to the refugee experience.
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A.O, Adigun, and Adigun K.A. "An Analysis of Utilization of Postnatal Care Services Among Mothers in Nigeria." International Journal of Contemporary Research and Review 10, no. 01 (January 31, 2019): 20691–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.15520/ijcrr.v10i01.651.
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This study examined the factors influencing postnatal health care attendance among Women in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The data used for the study was gathered by making use of structured questionnaire. Five hypotheses were formulated, chi-square and multiple linear regressions were used to analyze the data. From the result obtained, it was revealed that employment status, nature of settlement, religious belief, and place of delivery of women goes a long way in influencing their postnatal health care attendance. While educational levels of women do not influence their postnatal health care attendance. Based on the findings, it was recommended that effort to strengthen postnatal care should focus on universal coverage by addressing financial, religion, nature of settlement, place of delivery, education and cultural barriers to vulnerable groups, quality improvement to increase women’s satisfaction and carry the less privilege along and integration programmes to maximize the contact between women and health care services during and after delivery and enhance economic development.
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Tugiyarti, Urip Tugiyarti, Santoso Santoso Santoso, Muhammad Akhyar Akhyar, and Sapja Anantanyu Anantanyu. "The Relationship between Pregnant Women’s Perception of the Integrated ANC Program with Pregnant Women’s Behavior in the Integrated ANC Program." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY SCIENCE (IJNMS) 4, no. 1 (May 27, 2020): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.29082/ijnms/2020/vol4/iss1/245.
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Relationship between Pregnant Women’s Perception of the Integrated ANC Program with Pregnant Women’s Behavior in the Integrated ANC Program
Urip Tugiyarti(1), Santoso (2), Muhammad Akhyar(3), Sapja Anantanyu(4)
1) Study Program of Community Development/Empowerment Counseling in Health Promotion Interest, Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta
2)Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta
3) Faculty of Education, Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta
4) Development Counseling Study Program, Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta
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Background: Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is very high in the world; recorded 800 women die every day due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. The causes of maternal mortality in Indonesia are very diverse, both medical and non-medical. For this reason, efforts to accelerate the reduction of MMR and accelerate the SDGs achievement must be carried out comprehensively by involving cross-programs in the Health Office, across sectors, DPRD in local government, professional, religious/community organizations, private sector, NGOs and donor institutions. This is relevant as a reference, because maternal health conditions, especially pregnant women, in Indonesia are still far from expectations. Ensuring maternal health efforts is not limited to curative treatment, but must be balanced with preventive efforts. Preventive efforts are very important, because health status cannot be obtained instantly. The preventive effort aims to prevent the occurrence of maternal deaths and fulfill the rights of every pregnant woman to obtain quality health services so that she is able to undergo a healthy pregnancy, deliver safely and give birth to a healthy and quality baby, and pregnant women must understand and carry out integrated antenatal care (ANC). The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between perceptions of pregnant women about the integrated ANC program with the behavior of pregnant women in the integrated ANC program.
Subject and Method: This study uses a quantitative research method with a cross sectional approach carried out in Bantul Regency. 175 respondents were selected using the cluster proportional random sampling technique. The criteria of respondents are pregnant women with more than 12 weeks gestational age in second and third Trimester. The instruments of data collection used were questionnaires. Data were analyzed with path analysis method and SEM to test the correctness of the structural models available on the lisrel program.
Research Result: The results of the analysis show that there is a relationship between the perception of pregnant women about the integrated ANC program with the mother behavior in the integrated ANC program (0.42, t value = 8.70).
Conclusion: There is a positive and significant relationship between the perceptions of pregnant women about the integrated ANC program with the mother behavior in the integrated ANC program.
Keywords: pregnant women, perception, pregnant women behavior, integrated ANC program.
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Mahmood, Naushin, and Durr-e. Nayab. "Gender Dimensions of Demographic Change in Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 37, no. 4II (December 1, 1998): 705–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v37i4iipp.705-725.
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The achieving of equality and equity between men and women in different spheres of life is essential for the attainment of sustainable development goals. In this context, the need for enhancement of women’s participation in national development programmes and their full integration into the development process has been widely recognised in various global and regional forums. More recently, the Programme of Action adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo in 1994 reaffirmed and elaborated the role of women in national development, and endorsed a new strategy that emphasises “gender equality, equity and empowerment of women”. In this context, the Programme of Action recommends that countries should act to empower women and should take steps to eliminate inequalities between men and women by providing them with more choices through expanded access to education and health services, skill development and employment, and eliminating all practices that discriminate against women [United Nations (1995)].
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Sibbritt, David, Jon Adams, and Vijayendra Murthy. "The Prevalence and Determinants of Chinese Medicine Use by Australian Women: Analysis of a Cohort of 10,287 Women Aged 56–61 Years." American Journal of Chinese Medicine 41, no. 02 (January 2013): 281–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0192415x13500201.
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This study aimed to examine the factors associated with Chinese medicine use amongst a sample of 10,287 Australian women aged 56–61 years. Data was obtained from a cross-sectional postal questionnaire conducted in 2007, this being the fifth survey of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. This representative sample of 10,287 women was randomly selected from the Health Insurance Commission (Medicare) database. The outcome measure was the use of Chinese medicine in the previous 12 months. The predictive factors included demographics, health status measures and health service utilization measures. Statistical analyses included univariate chi-square and ANOVA tests and backward stepwise multiple logistic regression modelling. The use of Chinese medicine amongst women aged 56–61 years appears to be strongly influenced by their country of birth, consultation with a range of CAM practitioners, and the use of some self-prescribed CAM. Interestingly, severe tiredness was the only symptom or diagnosis that predicted Chinese medicine use. Given the substantial prevalence of Chinese medicine use and the finding that the use of Chinese medicine is heavily integrated alongside the use of many other CAM and conventional treatments, it is imperative for the safety of patients that health professionals (across complementary and conventional healthcare) fully recognise the possible Chinese medicine use amongst their practice populations. In order to help inform relevant practice and policy development it is also important that future research further examining women's decision-making, motivations and evaluations regarding Chinese medicine use considers such issues within the context of broader CAM and conventional health care utilization.
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Lipsk, Sherry, Patricia A. Stephenson, Thomas D. Koepsell, Stephen S. Gloyd, Jose-Luis Lopez, and Carolyn E. Bain. "Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices in Rural Mexico." Nutrition and Health 9, no. 4 (January 1994): 255–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026010609400900402.
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This report describes the breastfeeding and weaning practices of rural women in two Mexican towns and the cultural beliefs upon which these practices are based. Interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect information. Women thought breastfeeding preferable to bottle-feeding. Eighty percent initiated breastfeeding and 69% gave colostrum. Breastfeeding was discontinued early (mean age 4 months). The mean age at which children were introduced to other liquids was 2 months (range 0–5 months) and to solids, 4 months (range 1–8 months). Women's decisions regarding infant feeding were influenced most by custom and advice from doctors and family members. In some instances medical advice conflicted with traditional practices. These findings suggest important avenues for intervention in hospital practices, education for health care workers, and in the development of health promotion services.
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Jones, Alexandra, and Arlene Vetere. "‘You just deal with it. You have to when you’ve got a child’: A narrative analysis of mothers’ accounts of how they coped, both during an abusive relationship and after leaving." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 22, no. 1 (July 26, 2016): 74–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104515624131.
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A narrative analysis explored the accounts of eight mothers, each of whom had left an abusive relationship at least 12 months previously. Existing research investigating the strategies used by women to cope with domestic violence rarely considers women in their capacity as mothers. Furthermore, women’s lives after leaving an abusive relationship have received limited research attention. Thus, this study aimed to understand how women described coping with domestic violence and mothering their children, both during an abusive relationship and after leaving. The analysis focused on how the eight participants described their experiences (narrative form) as well as what they talked about (narrative content). Three types of narrative form were identified: (1) ‘The story told to help others’, (2) ‘The story too difficult to tell’ and (3) ‘Where’s my story going?’ Each woman spoke about the contextual factors that influenced whether she coped with domestic violence by seeking support from others, changing her thinking or changing her behaviour. Caring for their children was a major source of support for all the women both during their relationship and after leaving. The findings indicate that mothers who have been abused by their intimate partner may come into contact with a wide range of social and emergency support services. Implications for clinical practice, service delivery and service development relate to the different ways of supporting women in talking about abuse and also the need to recognise trauma in parents.
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Parada, Cristina Maria Garcia de Lima, and Maria Antonieta de Barros Leite Carvalhaes. "Childbirth care: contributing to the debate on human development." Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 15, spe (October 2007): 792–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692007000700013.
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This study aimed to evaluate care during childbirth and neonatal development in the interior of São Paulo in order to support managers responsible for formulating public policies on human development and allocating public resources to the women's healthcare. This epidemiological study focused on the evaluation of health services based on the observation of the assistance delivered by the Single Health System in 12 maternities and 134 delivers. The Brazilian Health Ministry or World Health Organization standards were adopted for comparison. The results revealed problems related to the structure of some maternities, where some well-proven practices in normal childbirth are still little used, whereas other prejudicial or ineffective ones are routinely used. Reversing this picture is essential in order to offer humanized quality care to women with consequent reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality rates, in such a way that the region achieves the millennium goals established for improving human development.
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Ngwena, Charles G. "Conscientious Objection to Abortion and Accommodating Women's Reproductive Health Rights: Reflections on a Decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia from an African Regional Human Rights Perspective." Journal of African Law 58, no. 2 (August 27, 2014): 183–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855314000114.
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AbstractIf applied in isolation from the fundamental rights of women seeking abortion services, the right to conscientious objection can render any given rights to abortion illusory, including the rights to health, life, equality and dignity that are attendant to abortion. A transformative understanding of human rights requires that the right to conscientious objection to abortion be construed in a manner that is subject to the correlative duties which are imposed on the conscientious objector, as well as the state, in order to accommodate women's reproductive health rights. In recent years, the Colombian Constitutional Court has been giving a judicial lead on the development of a right to conscientious objection that accommodates women's fundamental rights. This article reflects on one of the court's decisions and draws lessons for the African region.
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Gideon, Jasmine, Marianna Leite, and Gabriela Alvarez Minte. "What is hindering progress? The marginalization of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights in Brazil and Chile." Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 31, no. 3 (October 2015): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2015.1091784.
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The paper draws on the cases of Brazil and Chile to consider the lack of progress towards securing better health outcomes for women in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). At first glance, these poor outcomes for women appear surprising, given that both countries represent middle-income countries where significant developments have occurred towards ensuring universal access to healthcare services. Yet, a more nuanced analysis uncovers the historically constructed gender regimes and policy legacies within relevant institutions that act to limit progress. The discussion in the paper specifically focuses on the evolution of the health sector in the two countries, the role of the medical profession and the influence of the Catholic Church, which, we argue, have been key to constraining women's SRHR in Brazil and Chile.