Reproductive Health

Reproductive health (RH) problems account for a significant part of the burden of disease suffered by poor people in developing countries. Poor women and men are more afflicted with RH problems and often lack access to minimal RH care even when average levels of RH in the country are good. Many RH problems are most cost-effectively managed by prevention - serious problems are costly and very difficult to solve once manifest. This article covers the types of interventions needed to sustain reproductive health including increasing girls' education, preventing and managing sexually transmitted disease, providing contraception to avoid abortion, improving pre-natal and delivery care, increasing the number of skilled providers of health care, post-abortion care, bolstering maternal health services, and reducing practices that increase reproductive health risks such as unsafe sex, female genital mutilation, and domestic violence.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 2002-03
Subjects:	REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, GIRLS' EDUCATION, VENEREAL DISEASES, HIV INFECTIONS, BIRTH CONTROL, CONTRACEPTIVE USERS, ABORTION, MATERNAL MORTALITY, MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, STATUS OF WOMEN, OBSTETRICS, FEMALE CIRCUMCISION, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, PREGNANCY, CERVICAL CANCER, ABORTION COMPLICATIONS, ABORTION SERVICES, ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ADOLESCENT, ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, ADOLESCENT WOMEN, ADOLESCENTS, ANTENATAL CARE, BABIES, BABY, BEHAVIOR CHANGE, BIRTH WEIGHT, BIRTHS, BIRTHWEIGHT, BURDEN OF DISEASE, BURDEN OF DISEASE AMONG ADOLESCENTS, CARE PROVIDERS, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD MORBIDITY, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILD MORTALITY RATES, CHILD SURVIVAL, CLINICAL SERVICES, COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION, COMPLICATIONS, COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY, CONDOM, CONDOM USE, CONDOMS, CONTRACEPTION, CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICES, CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS, CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE, COUNSELING, DEATH RATE, DELIVERY CARE, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DISEASE, DRUGS, EARLY CHILDBEARING, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, EPIDEMIC, EQUAL ACCESS, ESSENTIAL OBSTETRIC CARE, EXISTING RESOURCES, FAMILIES, FAMILY PLANNING, FAMILY PLANNING INFORMATION, FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES, FEMALE, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, FERTILITY, FERTILITY RATE, FGM, FIRST BIRTH, GENDER, GENDER EQUALITY, GENITAL MUTILATION, GIRLS, HARD TO REACH GROUPS, HARMFUL PRACTICES, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, HEALTH CONDITIONS, HEALTH EDUCATION, HEALTH FACILITIES, HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH PROMOTION, HEALTH RISKS, HEALTH SYSTEM, HIGH-RISK, HIGH-RISK BEHAVIORS, HIV, HIV INFECTION, HIV/AIDS, HYGIENE, ILLNESS, INFANT, INFANTS, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, INTERVENTION, LABORATORY EQUIPMENT, LAWS, LIFE-SAVING CARE, MALE INVOLVEMENT, MATERNAL CARE, MATERNAL DEATH, MATERNAL DEATHS, MATERNAL HEALTH, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIOS, MATERNITY CARE, MEDICINES, MIDWIFE, MIDWIFERY, MIDWIFERY SKILLS, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, MOTHER, NEEDS OF ADOLESCENTS, NEWBORN, NEWBORN CARE, NUTRITION, OBSTETRIC EMERGENCIES, OBSTRUCTED LABOR, OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN, POPULATION GROWTH, POST-ABORTION, POST-ABORTION CARE, PRACTITIONERS, PREGNANCY-RELATED DEATHS, PREGNANT WOMEN, PRENATAL CARE, PREVENTION ACTIVITIES, PRIVATE PROVIDERS, PROVIDER ATTITUDES, RAPE, REPRODUCTIVE AGE, REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OUTCOMES, REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, REPRODUCTIVE TRACT, REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS, RESPONSIBLE SEXUALITY, RISK GROUPS, SAFE MOTHERHOOD, SAFE SEX, SAFE SEX LIFE, SCHOOL YOUTH, SCHOOLS, SCREENING, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SERVICE PROVISION, SERVICES FOR MEN, SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS, SEXUAL PARTNERS, SEXUALITY, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, SKILLED ATTENDANT, SKILLED CARE, SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES, SOCIAL MARKETING, SOCIETAL LEVEL, STIS, TRANSPORTATION, UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES, UNPROTECTED SEX, UNSAFE ABORTION, UNSAFE ABORTIONS, UNSAFE SEX, UNWANTED CHILDBEARING, UNWANTED PREGNANCIES, UNWANTED PREGNANCY, USE OF CONDOMS, VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE ON WOMEN, WOMEN'S HEALTH, WORKERS, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, YOUNG MOTHERS, YOUNG WOMEN, YOUTHS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/11982934/reproductive-health https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9778
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