Kasena Norms and Reproductive Health
In: Research Review of the Institute of African Studies, Band 18, Heft 1
ISSN: 0855-4412
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In: Research Review of the Institute of African Studies, Band 18, Heft 1
ISSN: 0855-4412
In: Social science & medicine, Band 47, Heft 12, S. 1925-1936
ISSN: 1873-5347
In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 24, Heft 5, S. 269
ISSN: 1728-4465
In: Women in the world
Vol. 1: Analytical report. - 2003. - XXV,251 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 219-221
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To support the Government of Ghana's plan to expand community-based distribution (CBD) programs, the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) and the Population Council conducted a study in 1999 of the CBD programs of 13 nongovernmental agencies. The study also assessed in depth PPAG's CBD program, which is the country's largest and oldest. Data sources included interviews with 301 CBD agents, 27 supervisors, and 20 clinicians in rural and urban areas in 16 districts; observations of 51 PPAG agents interacting with 6 clients each; and 15 focus group discussions with community members, former CBD agents, and CBD clients. CBD programs in Ghana indicate that contraceptive distributors can also provide education on sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health. As stated in this brief, performance of CBD agents remains low, and CBD programs can be improved by establishment of national standards and guidelines, better recordkeeping, and more compensation for agents.
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In: The Lancet, 363(9402), 68-68 (2004)
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In: Student anthropologist: the Journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA), Band 7, Heft 1, S. 17-23
ISSN: 2330-7625
Reproductive justice is defined as "women and girls achieving economic, social, and political power, and the resources to make healthy decisions about one's bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health for themselves and their families and their communities in all areas of [their] lives" (Zavella 2016, 1). Women of color are the targets of much prejudice in American society. (Ginsburg and Rapp 1995). Since September 11th and especially in the Trump era, Muslims continue to be "otherized" and racialized, further marginalizing Muslim women. Muslim women's reproductive health is impacted by reductive and essentialized perspective of their religious practice, a typical view held by contemporary America. Analyzing these disparities through an intersectional lens allows the researcher to confront popular essentialisms to understand the simultaneous interaction of race, class, and gender in the lives of Muslim women. Using this approach in her study of the reproductive health of African American women in Harlem, Leith Mullings (2005).identifies certain structural constraints, including political and economic factors, that cause stressors during pregnancy and health problems for both mother and child. Her findings and similar studies on Latina women beg the question: how do gender and racial discrimination, class bias, and Islamophobia affect the reproductive health of Muslim women? In this paper, I argue that intersectionality as a method and theoretical approach should be applied to Muslim women's reproductive health and reproductive justice issues, and I sketch out the beginning of an answer to that question.
In: International family planning perspectives, Band 25, S. S17
ISSN: 1943-4154
Después del inicio de las reformas del sector salud en 1994, el gobierno de Benin creó el Proyecto de Salud Familiar Integral, conocido localmente como PROSAF. Este proyecto opera en la región de Borgou, bajo el patrocinio de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional. Dicha región es en su mayoría rural y en ella se observan los problemas de salud más severos del país. Los gerentes de PROSAF deseaban entender por qué la gente no estaba utilizando los servicios a pesar de tener una salud deficiente, por lo que solicitaron al Centro Africano de Investigación en Población y Salud (APHRC) que estudiara de qué manera los hogares y las comunidades de Borgou toman sus decisiones sobre el cuidado de la salud. Con el apoyo del Population Council, el APHRC realizó un estudio en 2000, con el fin de identificar los factores socioculturales que pudieran impedir el acceso a los servicios de salud en la región y presentar recomendaciones para superar esos obstáculos. Los hallazgos del estudio incluyeron que los hombres adultos toman decisiones unilaterales en la asignación de recursos del hogar y la atención de la salud; las personas prefieren los servicios alternativos de atención de la salud, y recurre principalmente a curanderos tradicionales o la automedicación, por su bajo costo; el uso de la medicina moderna suele ser la último opción, y solo cuando los síntomas son avanzados; la comunicación sobre la PF es limitada, tanto entre esposos y esposas como entre padres e hijos. --- After initiating health sector reforms in 1994, the Bénin government established the Integrated Family Health Project, known as PROSAF. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, PROSAF operates in the Borgou region, which is mostly rural and has the country's most severe health problems. PROSAF managers wanted to understand why local people were not using health services, despite their poor health. As noted in this brief, managers requested that the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) study ...
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In: OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Band 6, Heft 5, S. 127-140
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In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization: the international journal of public health, Band 77, Heft 9, S. 771-777
ISSN: 0042-9686, 0366-4996, 0510-8659
In: Review of African political economy, Band 30, Heft 96, S. 273-292
ISSN: 0305-6244
Population policies have rarely been linked to economic policy, although the promoters of economic liberalization also support the embrace of population policy as important to the economic well-being of African states. Using a case study from Tanzania, I argue that population policies with a limited focus on fertility reduction may continue to be successful in the context of post-adjustment African health care systems, but policies that aim for the larger goals of improving women's reproductive health will be severely limited. Tanzania's donors & lenders promoted Neo-Malthusian types of population policies aimed primarily at reducing childbearing as a partial solution to the country's economic crisis. However, in the mid-1990s, the international discourse on population shifted toward a new dependent variable of 'women's reproductive' health. The notion of reproductive health reunites population & development issues in the context of basic health care provision. Improvements in the reproductive health of Tanzanian women will require more than simply the effective provision of contraceptives. This article argues that the challenges of improving reproductive health are unlikely to be met without a revitalization of public health care provision in African countries. 3 Tables, 61 References. Adapted from the source document.
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In: The journal of development studies, Band 42, Heft 7, S. 1158-1179
ISSN: 1743-9140