Reproductive Health and Human Rights
Reproductive Health and Human Rights

Author: Rebecca J. Cook

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2003-04-17

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 0191553832

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The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving women's health and rights around the world. It was internationally endorsed by a United Nations conference in 1994, but remains controversial because of the challenge it presents to conservative agencies: it challenges policies of suppressing public discussion on human sexuality and regulating its private expressions. Reproductive Health and Human Rights is designed to equip healthcare providers and administrators to integrate ethical, legal, and human rights principles in protection and promotion of reproductive health, and to inform lawyers and women's health advocates about aspects of medicine and healthcare systems that affect reproduction. Rebecca Cook, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla, leading international authorities on reproductive medicine, human rights, medical law, and bioethics, integrate their disciplines to provide an accessible but comprehensive introduction to reproductive and sexual health. They analyse fifteen case-studies of recurrent problems, focusing particularly on resource-poor settings. Approaches to resolution are considered at clinical and health system levels. They also consider kinds of social change that would relieve the underlying conditions of reproductive health dilemmas. Supporting the explanatory chapters and case-studies are extensive resources of epidemiological data, human rights documents, and research materials and websites on reproductive and sexual health. In explaining ethics, law, and human rights to healthcare providers and administrators, and reproductive health to lawyers and women's health advocates, the authors explore and illustrate limitations and dysfunctions of prevailing health systems and their legal regulation, but also propose opportunities for reform. They draw on the values and principles of ethics and human rights recognized in national and international legal systems, to guide healthcare providers and administrators, lawyers, governments, and national and international agencies and legal tribunals. Reproductive Health and Human Rights will be an invaluable resource for all those working to improve services and legal protection for women around the world. Updates to this book, and information on translations to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Arabic are now available at www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty/cook/ReproductiveHealth.html

Activité physique et sportive en périnatalité
Activité physique et sportive en périnatalité

Author: Patrick Laure

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2022-08-23

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 2294779398

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Depuis une trentaine d'années, de nombreuses études scientifiques ont prouvé les bénéfices de l'activité physique pour la femme enceinte et pour l'enfant qu'elle porte. Toutefois, seule une femme sur cinq, environ, pratique une activité physique ou sportive (APS) durant sa grossesse. Ce constat s'explique par un manque d'information des professionnels de la périnatalité qui ignorent souvent quel type d'APS conseiller et surtout comment accompagner les parturientes dans leur pratique d'une activité physique. Avec quelques 740 000 naissances par an en France (2019), les besoins sont conséquents. Après avoir rappelé les indispensables connaissances liées à la grossesse et aux modifications physiologiques qu'elle génère, cet ouvrage détaille les effets pré-, per et post-partum des APS, et propose aux médecins et sage-femmes des outils pratiques destinés à faciliter le conseil, à le personnaliser en fonction du profil des femmes (débutantes à sportives de haut niveau), et à les accompagner pour qu'elles en tirent des bénéfices en toute sécurité. Rédigé par deux experts des activités physiques et sportives en périnatalité, il comportera outre des apports théoriques fondés sur la recherche (modifications physiologiques liées à la grossesse, bénéfices des APS pendant la grossesse), de nombreuses situations cliniques Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux médecins du sport, aux médecins généralistes, aux sages-femmes et obstétriciens, ainsi qu'aux éducateurs sportifs.

The Global Sporting Arms Race
The Global Sporting Arms Race

Author: Veerle de Bosscher

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1841262285

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This title presents an international comparison of elite sports policies in six nations (Norway, Canada, Italy, Holland, the UK and Belgium). Drawing on research involving more than 1400 athletes, coaches, and performance directors, it evaluates and compares over 100 factors that lead to international sporting success.

Gender Matters
Gender Matters

Author: Dennis van der Veur

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9789287163936

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"'Gender Matters' is a manual aimed to assist educators and youth leaders work on issues of gender and gender-based violence with young people. This publication presents theoretical information, methods and resources for education and training activities, along with concrete exercises that users can put into practice in their daily work. Violence is a serious issue which directly affects the lives of many young people. It often results in lasting damage to their well-being and integrity, putting even their lives at risk. Gender-based violence, including violence against women, remains a key human rights challenge in contemporary Europe and in the world. Working with young people on human rights education is one way of preventing gender-based violence from occurring. By raising awareness on why and how it manifests and exploring its impact on people and in society, gender-based violence will no longer go undetected. Gender really does matter, to women, to men, to young people - to all of us. This manual serves to explore these human rights issues and act upon them."--Book jacket.

Human Muscle Fatigue
Human Muscle Fatigue

Author: Craig Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-06-18

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1134053517

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When human muscle fatigues, athletic performance becomes impaired. For those individuals suffering muscle or metabolic diseases the effects of muscle fatigue can make everyday tasks difficult. Understanding the scientific processes responsible for skeletal muscle fatigue is therefore central to the study of the physiology of sport, exercise and health. Written by a team of leading international exercise scientists, this book explores the mechanisms of muscle fatigue and presents a comprehensive survey of current research on this important topic. Examining the wide variety of protocols, assessment methods and exercise models used to study muscle fatigue, the book explores the differential effects of fatigue as influenced by: age gender fitness and training the use of ergogenic aids medical conditions including cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and glycogenosis. Human Muscle Fatigue covers both clinical and applied approaches in sport and exercise physiology and devotes an entire section to the conceptual framework underpinning research in this area, helping readers from a wide range of backgrounds to engage with the topic. Accessible and detailed, this book is a key text for students and practitioners working in exercise and sports science, medicine, physical therapy and health.