Download or read book Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services in Ghana written by Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994-07-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second most populous country in the West African subregion, Ghana is plagued by a population growth rate that far exceeds its economic growth rate. Hence, comprehensive action in family planning is needed to improve the country's social and economic well-being. Although studies on family planning and reproductive health are not lacking, the information is scattered. This annotated bibliography compiles the existing works on family planning and reproductive health in Ghana into a single resource guide. Every effort has been made to include all scholarly works, books, chapters in books, conference papers, discussion papers, periodical literature, public documents, thesis and dissertations, and technical reports, thereby providing scholars and practitioners with quick access to a wide range of research materials. The book is arranged into six topical chapters. Chapter one covers population dynamics, with a focus on general population characteristics and trends in population growth through fertility, mortality, and migration. Chapter two lists works on general reproductive behavior and contraception, including attitudes toward fertility, fertility preference, men's role in contraception and contraceptive devices. Chapter three includes works dealing with family planning program development and evaluation. Chapter four turns to factors other than contraception affecting fertility, such as breast-feeding, sexual practice, maternal age, birth intervals, nuptiality, sex roles, and sex preference. Chapter five is devoted to studies concerning primary health services, such as health delivery systems, child and maternal health, nutrition, traditional birth attendants, disease, and abortion. The final chapter covers general population policy and legislation.
Download or read book Clinic based Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services in Africa written by Kate Miller and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Second Situation Analysis Study of Family Planning Services in Ghana written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Planning and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Data Booklet written by United Nations Publications and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet is based on the Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2019, which includes estimates at the global, regional and country level of contraceptive prevalence, unmet need for family planning and SDG indicator 3.7.1 "Proportion of women who have their need for family planning satisfied by modern methods".
Download or read book Family Planning Programs in Sub Saharan Africa written by Regina McNamara and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Planning and Reproductive Health written by Zouhair Amarin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female reproductive topics are very common and can affect the patient’s quality of life. Such topics include puberty, endometriosis, breastfeeding, subfertility, menstrual problems, polycystic ovary syndrome, problems during pregnancy, uterine fibroids, various benign and malignant conditions of the reproductive organs, various sexually transmitted infections, family planning, and contraception. Good reproductive health covers the physical, mental, and social well-being. However, to maintain it, women need to be informed and empowered to protect themselves through access to services that can help them have a fit pregnancy, safe delivery, and healthy baby. This book is intended to cover some of the female reproductive issues for all specialties involved in health care for women.
Download or read book The World Health Organization written by Marcos Cueto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.
Download or read book Community and provider driven social accountability intervention for family planning and contraceptive service provision written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document outlines the key principles used in the Community and Provider-driven Social Accountability Intervention (CaPSAI) Project study for implementing social accountability processes in the context of family planning and contraceptive (FP/C) services. The CaPSAI study builds on and contributes to a growing but limited work to better understand how social accountability and participatory processes in the context of family planning and contraceptive programmes and services contribute to the greater achievement of sexual and reproductive health and rights. The document aims to inform practitioners or civil society organizations (CSOs) how the intervention was designed, implemented and monitored to support the integration of social accountability in the provision of contraceptive information and services. It was not intended to be a strict set of activities that were implemented exactly as outlined. Rather, it is a set of steps that were considered during the planning and implementing of the social accountability activities. During the implementation, flexibility and responsiveness were encouraged.
Download or read book Population Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities in Ghana written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development and Women s Reproductive Health in Ghana 1920 1982 written by Holly Ashford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the history of women’s reproductive health in Ghana, arguing that between the 1920s and 1980s, it was largely driven by discourses of development and population control rather than a concern for women’s health or rights. Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, this book demonstrates that whilst the substance of development discourse shifted over time, principles of development continued to be used to impact and legitimise reproductive health policy and practices well after independence. The book explores Ghana’s pluralist health system, the introduction of maternal and child welfare, the dominance of the Red Cross in Ghana’s maternal and child health landscape, nationalist pronatalism and global population activism. In order to understand how global iterations of development and health policy impacted ordinary lives in Ghana, the author uses evidence from multiple ‘levels,’ including private papers, national archives and records of international and transnational organisations. Providing balanced archival perspectives, the book includes extensive oral history interviews carried out with both rural Ghanaian women and traditional birth attendants, as well as with midwives, doctors and family planning fieldworkers. This book will have an important impact on a number of historical fields including Ghanaian history, global health history, global histories of population and family planning and histories of development. It will be of interest to researchers and students in the history of public health, development, Africa, Ghana and gender.
Download or read book International Family Planning Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Global Family Planning Revolution written by Warren C. Robinson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries at the close of World War II gained force during the next decade. From the 1950s to the 1970s, scholars and advocacy groups publicized the trend and drew troubling conclusions about its economic and ecological implications. Private educational and philanthropic organizations, government, and international organizations joined in the struggle to reduce fertility. Three decades later this movement has seen changes beyond anyone's most optimistic dreams, and global demographic stabilization is expected in this century. The Global Family Planning Revolution preserves the remarkable record of this success. Its editors and authors offer more than a historical record. They disccuss important lessons for current and future initiatives of the international community. Some programs succeeded while others initially failed, and the analyses provide valuable guidance for emerging health-related policy objectives and responses to global challenges.
Download or read book Critical Issues in Reproductive Health written by Andrzej Kulczycki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading academics and practitioners in the field of reproductive health address topics such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and prenatal health, sexuality and reproductive rights by examining a number of critical issues in these areas. The authors describe new research, identify gaps and priorities in policy and practice, and illustrate innovative solutions. The book further addresses such current imperatives as understanding the social meanings of emergency contraception, measuring gender-based violence, improving reproductive health governance, strengthening health systems and services, and redressing institutional barriers. The book also assesses how reproductive health programs can be reconfigured to new challenges such as those posed by climate change, vulnerable youth in fragile states, and risks from new infertility treatments. Using a rich and varied set of cases, a broad public health and social science perspective, and novel methodological approaches, this book questions common assumptions, illustrates effective solutions and sets out research, policy, and programmatic agendas for the present and future. This is a comprehensive volume which provides a valuable resource to researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers and students, as well as anyone studying or advocating for reproductive health.
Download or read book Scaling Up Health Service Delivery written by Ruth Simmons and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The focus here is on ways to increase impact of health service innovations that have been tested in pilot or experimental projects so as to benefit more people and to foster policy and programme development on a lasting, sustainable basis." -- p.i Preface.
Download or read book Health Communication written by Phyllis Piotrow and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective communication is the key to encouraging healthy behavior. Documenting a revolution in both theory and practice, Johns Hopkins University experts show that communication leads the way to healthy reproductive health and family planning behavior. They explain why communication makes so much difference and how communication programs can be made to work. This book presents a compilation of lessons learned by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and its partners over 15 years of developing and implementing family planning communication projects campaigns in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East. An introductory essay provides an overview of family planning and communication worldwide and outlines the role of theory-based communication programs. The main part of the book presents lessons learned in the field about the process of designing and carrying out family planning communication projects. More than 60 lessons are presented, with descriptions and analysis of projects illustrating each lesson. A final essay explores the current and future challenges confronting family planning educators and other public health communicators.
Download or read book Key Indicators for Family Planning Projects written by Rodolfo A. Bulatao and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 304. Presents development projects as instruments of policy reform and institutional change. Analyzes the global factors underlying the growing demand for institutional reform and describes why such reform is readily achieved through multilateral cooperation.
