From Birth Control to Reproductive Health: Future Direction of the Planned Parenthood Association of Taiwan

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-278
Author(s):  
L. P. Chow
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Planned Parenthood ◽  
Future Direction

A Review of Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Issues in Public Health Communication

2017 ◽  
pp. 194-216
Author(s):  
Thanny Noeem Taiwo ◽  
Oyewo Oyeyinka Olusola
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Public Health Communication ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This chapter attempts a review of the dominant issues relating to theoretical, conceptual and methodological directions in public health communication discourse. Through a combination of descriptive and meta-analytical reviews, the chapter analyses evidences from past studies in the field of public health communication with the aim of summarizing findings in order to find a clear path for future direction of research in this area. There is, therefore, efforts in the chapter at reviewing the major theoretical foundations that have driven scholarly discussions in this field from individual to interpersonal, community and institutional perspectives. The chapter also discusses wide raging conceptual issues relating to reproductive health, maternal mortality, child survival, mental health, infectious diseases as well as accident, trauma and emergency. Diverse methods used in studying public health communication were also reviewed in the chapter.

How I Learned to Love the Bomb

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Richard Togman
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Planned Parenthood ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Western Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Dramatic Shift

Chapter 5 explores Europe countries’ rapid abandonment of efforts to boost their birth rates and the dramatic shift of natalist attention to the global South. Uncovering the origins of a new discourse on population, this chapter demonstrates how the concept of development was melded with the newly created problem of high fertility in the postcolonial world. It looks at the role of scientists, doctors, academics, and military leaders in driving a massive expansion of Western development efforts in the area of reproduction and the creation of modern birth control techniques. In addition, this chapter highlights how an extremely broad range of Western-based, organizations from the World Bank to the CIA and Planned Parenthood, became involved in encouraging Third World governments to lower the fertility of their populations.

Reproductive Health in Post-Transition Mongolia: Global Discourses and Local Realities

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Rak ◽  
Craig Janes
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Reproductive Decision ◽  
Reproductive Decision Making ◽  
Health Circles ◽  
Technological Methods ◽  
Reproductive Health Policy

AbstractGlobal reproductive health policy is based on assumptions, couched in scientific language, that technological methods of birth control are superior to traditional methods, use of these methods is more modern and "rational" than alternatives, and abortion should not be considered a form of birth control. The authority these assumptions have achieved in global health circles prevents alternative options from being considered. Our research on women's birth control experiences in Mongolia suggests that reproductive health programs based on such global assumptions fail to consider the local cultural contexts of reproductive decision-making address women's needs, and are therefore seriously flawed.

Correlates of Receiving Reproductive Health Care Services Among U.S. Men Aged 15 to 44 Years

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina J. Chabot ◽  
Carrie Lewis ◽  
Heike Thiel de Bocanegra ◽  
Philip Darney
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Physical Exam ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Health Care ◽  
To Receive

Men have a significant role in reproductive health decision making and behavior, including family planning and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).Yet studies on reproductive health care of men are scarce. The National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2008 provided data that allowed assessment of the predisposing, enabling, and need factors associated with men’s receipt of reproductive health services in the United States. Although more than half (54%) of U.S. men received at least one health care service in the 12 months prior to the survey, far fewer had received birth control counseling/methods, including condoms (12%) and STD/HIV testing/STD treatment (12%). Men with publicly funded health insurance and men who received physical exam were more likely to receive reproductive health services when compared with men with private health insurance and men who did not receive a physical exam. Men who reported religion was somewhat important were significantly more likely to receive birth control counseling/ methods than men who stated religion was very important. The pseudo- R2 (54%), a measure of model fit improvement, suggested that enabling factors accounted for the strongest association with receiving either birth control counseling/ methods or STD/HIV testing/STD treatment.

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