The Global Gag Rule and Women's Reproductive Health

The Global Gag Rule and Women's Reproductive Health

Author: Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0190876123

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This book supports three important messages: the global gag rule has failed to achieve its goal of reducing abortions; there is no definitive relationship between restrictive national abortion laws and abortion rates; and the 2017 expansion of the global gag rule will adversely affect a dashboard of health indicators.


The World Health Organization

The World Health Organization

Author: Marcos Cueto

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-11

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108483577

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A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.


Global Population Policy

Global Population Policy

Author: Paige Whaley Eager

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1351933299

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This absorbing study explains why population control is no longer the focus of global population policy and why reproductive rights and health have become the major focus. Global Population Policy will appeal to a wide audience, including readers in the fields of women's studies, development politics and international relations.


Family Planning and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Data Booklet)

Family Planning and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Data Booklet)

Author: United Nations Publications

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9789211483239

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This booklet is based on the Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2019, which includes estimates at the global, regional and country level of contraceptive prevalence, unmet need for family planning and SDG indicator 3.7.1 "Proportion of women who have their need for family planning satisfied by modern methods".


Making Health Policy

Making Health Policy

Author: Buse, Kent

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0335246346

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Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.


Safe Abortion

Safe Abortion

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2003-05-13

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 9241590343

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At a UN General Assembly Special Session in 1999, governments recognised unsafe abortion as a major public health concern, and pledged their commitment to reduce the need for abortion through expanded and improved family planning services, as well as ensure abortion services should be safe and accessible. This technical and policy guidance provides a comprehensive overview of the many actions that can be taken in health systems to ensure that women have access to good quality abortion services as allowed by law.