Reproductive health: a global perspective

Article Abstract:

The reproductive health of women is a global concern because of the social and environmental impacts of population growth and maternal mortality. The practice of reproductive health involves ensuring maternal and child health. Reproductive health care for women includes access to contraception or infertility treatment and treatment or education about sexually transmitted diseases. The responsibilities toward newborns include ensuring a healthy infancy. By the year 2000 there will be 25 cities with populations of more than 10 million people. Twenty of these cities will be in developing countries. In 1950, there were only three cities of this size. Despite the emphasis on family planning in the 1970s and the emphasis on maternal and child health in the 1980s, 500,000 women die annually during childbirth. Most of these deaths occur in developing nations. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if the women had adequate access to health care.

International aspects, Gynecology, Obstetrics

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The effect of diabetes on alpha(sub 2)-adrenergic receptor activity in the reproductive centers of the female rat brain

Article Abstract:

Diabetes appears to have no adverse effect on the activity of alpha(sub 2)-adrenergic receptors in the hypothalamus, according to a study in rats. There must be some other reason why women with type 1 diabetes have reproductive abnormalities such as irregular menstruation or complete absence of menstruation.

Research, Type 1 diabetes, Menstruation disorders

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Access to services at assisted reproductive technology clinics: a survey of policies and practices

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Many assisted reproduction clinics do not treat women who abuse alcohol, are HIV-positive, have a history of child abuse or have a history of a mental illness such as schizophrenia. This was the conclusion of researchers who surveyed 184 assisted reproduction clinics.

Social policy, Surveys, Discrimination in medical care, Medical care discrimination, Fertility clinics

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