World Report on Women's Health
The fifth edition of the World Report on Women's Health - published every three years to tie in with the FIGO World Congress of Gynecology & Obstetrics - focuses on the right to health expressed in the Millennium Development Goals and improving access to health.
As in previous years, the articles aim to meet the objectives of FIGO as they reflect on the realities that affect women in most parts of the world and the dire need for advocacy, expertise and collaboration to promote health, well being and the status of women through the Ob-Gyn community, using available evidence.
This edition of the World Report on Women's Health was produced with the generous support of Ipas,(working in collaboration with the UK Department for International Development), The International Planned Parenthood Federation, The Japan Society of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The Society of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists of Canada, The World Health Organization - Department of Reproductive Health and Research and The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.
The report was published as the September 2006 Issue of FIGO's International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, and the contents may be downloaded free of charge as PDF files by clicking on the appropriate chapter headings below.
EDITORIAL
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S HEALTH IN CONTEXT
Women’s access to health care: The legal framework
MATERNAL AND NEWBORN CARE
Human resources and access tomaternal health care
Universal reporting of maternal mortality: An achievable goal?
Postpartum hemorrhage today: ICM/FIGO initiative 2004—2006
Eliminating obstetric fistula: Progress in partnerships
Cesarean section by choice: Constructing a reproductive rights framework for the debateB
The right to a healthy newborn
Breastfeeding: A woman’s reproductive right
FULFILLING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE INTENTIONS
Cost-effective approaches to in vitro fertilization: Means to improve access
Women’s access to modern methods of fertility regulation
Access to emergency contraception
Abortion, social inequity, and women’s health: Obstetrician-gynecologists as agents of change
OTHER URGENT THREATS TO WOMEN’S HEALTH: THE UNFINISHED AGENDA - HIV/AIDS
The AIDS pandemic: A catalyst for women’s rights
OTHER URGENT THREATS TO WOMEN’S HEALTH: THE UNFINISHED AGENDA - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Violence against women and the Millennium Development Goals: Facilitating women’s access to support
OTHER URGENT THREATS TO WOMEN’S HEALTH: THE UNFINISHED AGENDA - CERVICAL CANCER
Cervical cancer: A call for political will
OTHER URGENT THREATS TO WOMEN’S HEALTH: THE UNFINISHED AGENDA - MENTAL HEALTH
Women’s mental health: A silent cause of mortality and morbidity
OTHER URGENT THREATS TO WOMEN’S HEALTH: THE UNFINISHED AGENDA - ADOLESCENCE
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Malaria in pregnancy: Access to effective interventions in Africa
Legal issues impacting women’s access to care in the United States—the malpractice insurance crisis
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