Mental health aspects of women's reproductive health : a global review of the literature.

Mental health aspects of women's reproductive health : a global review of the literature.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: World Health Organization., United Nations Population Fund., Key Centre for Women's Health in Society.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, [2009]
Subjects:
Women > Mental health.
Reproductive health.
Women.
Gender identity.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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