Author	Middleberg, Maurice I. author
Title	Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries [electronic resource] / by Maurice I. Middleberg
Imprint	Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b105374
Descript	XIV, 271 p. online resource

Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive approach to developing and implementing reproductive health programs in the developing world. It fills a major gap in the literature by responding to the global need for a detailed guide to comprehensive reproductive health services. Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries furnishes an innovative conceptual model - reproductive security - and offers an in-depth analysis of major reproductive health issues. 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 will be of great interest to public health professionals on both a local and global level, international policy makers, and relief workers

Purpose and Conceptual Framework -- Epidemiology of Reproductive Health -- Behavior Change -- Community Empowerment -- Building Institutional Capacity -- Contraception -- Maternal Health Care -- HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Policy and Politics

1. Medicine
2. Public health
3. Maternal and child health services
4. Health psychology
5. Community psychology
6. Environmental psychology
7. Medicine & Public Health
8. Public Health
9. Maternal and Child Health
10. Health Psychology
11. Community and Environmental Psychology