Aims

To provide the basic knowledge required for an understanding of the various components that make up reproductive health, and including their socio-economic and cultural dimensions.

Main themes

- Reproductive health: A definition and "history" of the concept, its various dimensions, its limitations, and ethical questions.
- The main problems encountered in reproductive health, and including data sources, indicators and international levels in respect of each of them.
* Socio-economic, nutritional and behavioural factors, and the negative issues of fatness (death in the womb, premature birth, underweight neonates, genetic and other anomalies, and child morbidity/mortality).
* Sterility and hyper-fertility.
* Artificial abortions (status and levels) and its consequences.
* Maternal morbidity/mortality (genital mutilation, monitoring fatness, and conditions for giving birth).
* STDs/Aids and the consequences.
* Family planning (methods of contraception and their "acceptability") and measuring unsatisfied needs.
- The contribution of the gender issue to a better understanding of factors that determine fertility and sexuality.
- Case study: An example of a programme in the north and the south.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Documentation: Files of reading and bibliographies.
Assessment: This will be in the form of summarised reading and applied work.

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