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Mental health aspects of women's reproductive health : a global review of the literature
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- English
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- Geneva : World Health Organization, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- x, 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
- ISBNs
- 1282057960, 9240683585, 9789241563567, 9786612057960, 9241563567
- OCLC
- ocn264018176, ocn437108006, ocn646798645
- Joint publication of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Population Fund in collaboration with the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Overview of key issues -- The global burden of reproductive ill-health -- Researchers' views -- Women's views -- Focus and framework of the current review -- Reproductive rights -- Gender, rights and reproductive mental health -- 2. Pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period -- Mental health and maternal mortality -- Maternal deaths by inflicted violence -- Mental health and antenatal morbidity -- Mental health and postpartum morbidity -- Biological risk factors for postpartum depression -- Psychosocial risk factors for postpartum depression -- Maternal mental health, infant development and the mother-infant relationship -- Summary -- 3. Psychosocial aspects of fertility regulation -- Contraceptive use and mental health -- Mental health and elective abortion -- Summary -- 4. Spontaneous pregnancy loss -- Mental health and spontaneous pregnancy loss -- Medical treatment of spontaneous pregnancy loss -- Summary -- 5. Menopause -- Mental health and the perimenopausal period -- Menopause : a time of increased risk for poor mental health -- Well-being in midlife and the importance of the life course -- Summary -- 6. Gynaecological conditions -- Non-infectious gynaecological conditions -- Infectious gynaecological conditions -- Malignant conditions -- Summary -- 7. Women's mental health in the context of HIV/AIDS -- Gender and the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS -- Gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS -- Migration and HIV/AIDS -- Mental health and HIV/AIDS -- Summary -- 8. Infertility and assisted reproduction -- Causes of infertility -- Psychological causation of infertility -- Psychological impact of fertility -- Psychological aspects of treatment of infertility using assisted reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period after assisted conception -- Parenthood after infertility and assisted reproduction -- New technologies and their implications -- Summary -- 9. Female genital mutilation -- Health effects of female genital mutilation -- Summary -- 10. Conclusions -- Overview of key areas discussed -- Annex. WHO survey questionnaire on the mental health aspects of reproductive health
Subjects
- Women -- Mental health.
- Reproductive health.
- Women's Health -- review.
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- Mental Disorders -- complications -- review.
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- Reproductive Behavior -- review.
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- Reproductive Health Services -- review.
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- Women -- psychology -- review.
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- Women's Health.
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- Women -- psychology.
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- Mental Health.
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- Mental Disorders -- complications.
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- Reproductive Behavior.
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- Reproductive Health Services.
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