Learning to Dance: Advancing Women's Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-308
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Women’S Reproductive Health ◽  
Women's Reproductive Health ◽  
Health And Well Being

scholarly journals Achieving Proportional Representation In A Reproductive Health Survey Through Social Media: Process And Recommendations

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ona L McCarthy ◽  
Melissa J Palmer ◽  
Anasztazia Gubijev ◽  
Kaye Wellings ◽  
Sue Mann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
National Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Women’S Reproductive Health ◽  
Women's Reproductive Health ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Background: The narrative surrounding women’s reproductive health has shifted from a medical model to an emphasis on reproductive well-being over different life-stages. We developed and piloted a tracker survey for monitoring women’s reproductive health and well-being in England, recruiting respondents online. This paper reports on the success of the online recruitment strategies in achieving a sample proportionally representative of the England general population.Methods: Recruitment was through Facebook and Instagram advertisements and dissemination through Twitter and a blog. At the end week one, the sample was reviewed and compared to the 2011 Census England population. From week two, recruitment targeted under-represented groups. Key data were compared with prevalence estimates from the Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3).Results: Between 1 July-17 August 2021, 13,962 people initiated the online survey, with 11,578 completing it. Numbers were low initially, but peaked at 1700 survey initiations per day after increasing the daily advertisement budget on day seven. At the end of week one, minority ethnic groups and people without a degree or equivalent were under-represented. From week two, we altered the advertisement settings to show to people whose profile indicated they were a ‘high school leaver’ had ‘up to some high school’, worked in industries that do not typically require a degree or lived in local authorities with a high proportion of ethnic minority residents. This had a modest effect, with the final sample short of proportional representation in terms of ethnicity and education but close in terms of region and age. Compared to Natsal-3, we found consistency in the proportion of respondents reporting an abortion and a live birth in the last year, however, the proportion of our sample reporting ever having experienced infertility was significantly higher than in Natsal-3, as was the proportion of ‘planned’ pregnancies in the last year.Conclusions: It is possible to recruit large numbers of respondents online, relatively quickly, to complete a reproductive health survey. This will be valuable to track reproductive health and well-being at a national level over time. More work is needed to understand reasons for non-response among under-represented groups.

scholarly journals Access to the Emergency Contraceptive Pill and Women's Reproductive Health: Evidence From Public Reform in Chile

Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Clarke ◽  
Viviana Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Contraceptive Pill ◽  
Emergency Contraceptive Pill ◽  
Emergency Contraceptive ◽  
Women’S Reproductive Health ◽  
Women's Reproductive Health

Abstract We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health care centers. We study the period 2002–2016 and a broad rollout of the emergency contraceptive pill occurring between 2008 and 2011. By combining a number of administrative data sets on health outcomes and pharmaceutical use, and using event-study and difference-in-differences methods, we document that this expansion improved certain classes of women's reproductive health outcomes, notably reducing rates of abortion-related morbidity. These improvements were greater in areas of the country where the rollout of the emergency contraceptive pill was more extensive. We also document some evidence that refusal to provide the emergency contraceptive pill upon a women's request was linked with a worsening in reproductive health outcomes. These results point to the importance of contraceptive access as a determinant of women's reproductive health and well-being and relates to a growing body of work documenting the importance of women's autonomy as a determinant of health.

s.One Norms and Principles, 1 The Birth and Development of Human Rights for Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meier Benjamin Mason ◽  
Murphy Thérèse ◽  
Gostin Lawrence O
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
The Political ◽  
Normative Foundations ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Historical Origins

This chapter examines the historical origins of human rights as a basis for public health. Tracing the idea of rights from philosophical notions of natural rights to human rights under international law, the normative foundations underlying rights have long been seen as central to health and well-being—from the political engagement with underlying determinants of health in 1848 to the international codification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. The modern human rights system that frames public health arose in response to the deprivations and atrocities of World War II. Giving rise to the notion of human rights under international law, the postwar creation of the United Nations (UN) provided the structure for a new legal regime under which individuals were seen as having certain rights by virtue of their humanity, ensuring a foundation for the evolution of rights to advance health.

scholarly journals Conscientious Objection to Abortion and Accommodating Women's Reproductive Health Rights: Reflections on a Decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia from an African Regional Human Rights Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G Ngwena
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Conscientious Objector ◽  
Women’S Reproductive Health ◽  
The Right ◽  
Women's Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Rights

AbstractIf applied in isolation from the fundamental rights of women seeking abortion services, the right to conscientious objection can render any given rights to abortion illusory, including the rights to health, life, equality and dignity that are attendant to abortion. A transformative understanding of human rights requires that the right to conscientious objection to abortion be construed in a manner that is subject to the correlative duties which are imposed on the conscientious objector, as well as the state, in order to accommodate women's reproductive health rights. In recent years, the Colombian Constitutional Court has been giving a judicial lead on the development of a right to conscientious objection that accommodates women's fundamental rights. This article reflects on one of the court's decisions and draws lessons for the African region.

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