Critical Issues in Reproductive Health

1. Introduction and Overview
Andrzej Kulczycki

Part I. Expanding the Research Base

2. The Vocabulary of Reproductive Health
Alaka Malwade Basu

3. Prevalence, Attitudes, Risk Factors, and Selected Health-Related Outcomes Associated with Spousal Physical Violence During Pregnancy in Egypt
Andrzej Kulczycki

4. Addressing Men’s Concerns About Reproductive Health Services and Fertility Regulation in a Rural Sahelian Setting of Northern Ghana: The “Zurugelu Approach”
Philip Baba Adongo, James F. Phillips, Colin D. Baynes

5. Social Class and Sexual Stigma: Local Interpretations of Emergency Contraception in Egypt
L. L. Wynn, Hosam Moustafa Abdel Hafez, Ahmed Ragab

6. Using New Data and Improved Study Designs to Examine Infertility-Service Seeking and Adverse Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in the South-Central United States
Suzanne Dhall, Andrzej Kulczycki

Part II. Advancing Policy

7. The Evolution of Consensus on Population and Development: Prospects for Resurgent Policy and Program Action
Andrew B. Kantner

8. How Problematic Will Liberal Abortion Policies Be for Pronatalist Countries?
Dennis Hodgson

9. Climate Change Science, Policy and Programming: Where Are Population and Reproductive Health?
Karen Hardee

10. Reproductive Health Aid: A Delicate Balancing Act
Hendrik P. Dalen, Maja Micevska Scharf

11. Looking Back and Looking Ahead to Where Are We Going: A Round-Table Symposium on the Past, Present, and Future of Reproductive Health
Daniel E. Pellegrom, Marleen Temmerman, Neil Datta, Jill Sheffield, Stan Bernstein, Elizabeth Lule

Part III. Strengthening Service and Program Capacity

12. Fostering Change in Medical Settings: A Holistic Programming Approach to “Revitalizing” IUD Use in Kenya
Roy Jacobstein

13. Radical Common Sense: Community Provision of Injectable Contraception in Africa
John Stanback, Reid Miller

14. Global Introduction of a Low-Cost Contraceptive Implant
Kate H. Rademacher, Heather L. Vahdat, Laneta Dorflinger, Derek H. Owen, Markus J. Steiner

15. An Integrated Approach to Targeted, Evidence-Based Livelihood and Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Vulnerable Young People in Fragile States: The Case of Liberia
Adam Weiner, Andrzej Kulczycki

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Public Health, Demography, Reproductive Medicine, Quality of Life Research