A recent Harris Poll revealed some disturbing aspects of the current state of health care provision for women and children. The poll dealt with issues as diverse as clincial examinations and communication between women and their doctors. Such issues, long ignored or under-appreciated by medical researchers, clinicians, and public policy makers, are increasingly receiving attention, not only from public health experts, but also from politicians, pressure groups, and the media. Reproductive Health Care for Women and Babies addresses all the medical and societal aspects of health care that go to form public health policy for women. The editors have assembled an international team of contributors who provide the reader with a truly global picture of the issues involved. These features combine to provide a much better understanding of the health care needs of women. Doctors will be able to take a broader view of their role, beyond the traditional one of diagnosis and treatment, and allow to communicate more effectively their individual and collective views.
Such a reorientation is essential if physicians are to assume their proper role at the centre of the formation of public health policy. For anybody involved in providing health care for women and children this book is essential reading.
A recent Harris Poll revealed some disturbing aspects of the current state of health care provision for women and children. The poll dealt with issues as diverse as clincial examinations and communication between women and their doctors. Such issues, long ignored or under-appreciated by medical researchers, clinicians, and public policy makers, are increasingly receiving attention, not only from public health experts, but also from politicians, pressure groups, and the media. Reproductive Health Care for Women and Babies addresses all the medical and societal aspects of health care that go to form public health policy for women. The editors have assembled an international team of contributors who provide the reader with a truly global picture of the issues involved. These features combine to provide a much better understanding of the health care needs of women. Doctors will be able to take a broader view of their role, beyond the traditional one of diagnosis and treatment, and allow to communicate more effectively their individual and collective views.
Such a reorientation is essential if physicians are to assume their proper role at the centre of the formation of public health policy. For anybody involved in providing health care for women and children this book is essential reading.
Preface
Mary Ellen Avery: Evolving role of children in our society
I. Changing Health Ricks for Women over their Lifecycle
1: Cristine Russell: The health risks women face
2: Bruce Kessel: Reproductive cycles in women: The impact on
quality of life
3: Roxane Gardner: Female adolescent health care: international
perspective
4: Willard Cates, Jr.: Sexually transmitted diseases
3: Deborah Cotton: AIDS in women
6: Jonathan Niloff and Jocelyn Chamberlain: Screening for cancer in
women
7: David Chapin: Benign gynecological conditions, changing
indications for surgery
II. Family Planning and Fertility
8: Luigi Mastroianni, Jr.: Contraception
9: Herbert B. Peterson and Lynne S. Wilcox: Female
sterilization
10: Stanley Henshaw: Induced abortion
11: Carl Wood and Karen Dawson: Assisted fertilization
III. Maternal Health Care
12: Lorraine V. Klerman and Irwin R. Merkatz: Maternity-related
health care in the U.S.A.
13: R.H. Philpott: Maternal health care in the developing world
14: R.W. Beard and Jean Chapple: An evaluation of maternity
services
15: Allan Rosenfield: Maternal mortality and morbidity
16: Thorkild F. Nielsen: Cesarean section
IV. Pregnancy and Prevention of Adverse Infant Outcomes
17: Roger K. Freeman: Evaluation of monitoring techniques in
pregnancy
18: Wendy Chavkin: Substance abuse in pregnancy
19: Emile Papiernik: Prevention of preterm birth in France
20: Catherine S. Peckham: Infections in pregnancy that may affect
the development of the baby
21: Philip R. Reilly: Screening for the abnormal baby
V. Impact of Adverse Infant Outcomes
22: Paul H. Wise: Infant mortality: confronting disciplinary
fragmentation in research and policy
23: Robert L. Goldenburg: Small for gestational age infants
24: Karin B. Nelson: Cerebral palsy
epilogue by Sir Donald Acheson
25: Shoo K. Lee: Neonatal intensive care
VI. Obstetrics and Public Policy
26: Benjamin P. Sachs and Bruce Korf: Human genome project:
implications for practising obstetricians
27: Alan Pinshaw and Howard Hiatt: Professional liability and the
practice of obstetrics
This is a valuable book for those interested in reproductive health
policy....Many of the chapters provide excellent overviews of the
epidemiological and clinical knowledge that impact on women's
reproductive health.--Arden Handler, DrPH, University of Illinois
at Chicago
Reproductive Health Care for Women and Babies is recommended
reading for all those involved in the delivery and planning of
women's health care. Its well-written messages are clear and
concise and worthy of note as we approach the 21st century.--New
England Journal of Medicine
Interesting and enjoyable to read....A useful teaching
tool.--Family Medicine
A valuable book for those interested in reproductive health
policy...many of the chapters provide excellent overviews of the
epidemiological and clinical knowledge that impacts on women's
reproductive health.--Doody's Journal
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