Women's Health Issues – serie

How partner violence is responded to, individually and collectively, may well determine whether the violence can be prevented or will cease once begun.This text is intended to serve as a basic resource for the student, clinician and researcher.

This volume is designed to motivate and engage scientists, policymakers, and practitioners to greater scientific discourse, reduce the stigma on and validate the importance of women's sexual and reproductive health. It brings together historians, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, public health researchers, genetic counselors, attorneys, social workers, nurses and physicians, and presents comprehensive coverage that will benefit women's health advocates, students, and practitioners.

This title provides a comprehensive approach to developing and implementing reproductive health programmes in the developing world. It responds to the global need for a detailed guide to comprehensive reproductive health services. It furnishes an innovative conceptual model - reproductive security - and offers an in-depth analysis of major reproductive health issues. An important contribution of the book is that it is oriented to the needs and challenges of the district health manager, usually the working level of service delivery in most developing countries. This book equips users to assess the local context, craft an appropriate reproductive health strategy, and implement an effective programme. The text discusses subjects such as: providing high quality family planning services; reducing maternal death and illness; combating sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; and reducing sexual violence against women and families. The need for skilled, dedicated professionals is great. Those who choose to pursue the discipline are promised an endlessly rewarding and absorbing profession that will touch upon the most intimate aspects of life while reverberating globally.This book should be of great interest to public health professionals on both a local and global level, international policy makers, and relief workers.

This volume is designed to motivate and engage scientists, policymakers, and practitioners to greater scientific discourse, reduce the stigma on and validate the importance of women's sexual and reproductive health. It brings together historians, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, public health researchers, genetic counselors, attorneys, social workers, nurses and physicians, and presents comprehensive coverage that will benefit women's health advocates, students, and practitioners.

It is clear that physical abuse is an integral component of some intimate relationships. This book addresses not the violence but our responses or lack of responses to that violation of personal integrity and the accompanying trauma. How partner violence is responded to, individually and collectively, may well determine whether the violence can be prevented or will cease once begun.This text is intended to serve as a basic resource for the student, clinician and researcher. It provides a summary of how we have responded to such violence in the past and presents potential future directions for research and prevention efforts.