Bookedited by Delan Devakumar, Jennifer Hall, Zeshan Qureshi, Joy Lawn.
Summary: The aim of this book is to provide a summary of the current concepts and challenges in global maternal and child health in a format that appeals to students of the subject, the general public, and current practitioners in the field. It also provides study exercises that may inform tutors on undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Contents:
SECTION 1 Introduction
1 Women's, children's, and adolescents' health in a changing world
2 Strategies through the lifecourse to improve maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health
3 Agencies and actors in women's, children's, and adolescents' health
SECTION 2 Research methods
4 Research methods and evidence-based medicine
5 Economic evaluation in global health
SECTION 3 Important concepts across the lifecourse
6 Social determinants of health7 Developmental origins of health and disease
8 Health workers and health systems
9 The environment and health
10 Conflict, disasters, and humanitarian response
SECTION 4 Adolescent health
11 Introduction to adolescent health
12 Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
13 Adolescent non-communicable diseases
14 Adolescent mental health
15 Adolescent HIV and infection
16 Adolescent injuries
17 Strategies to improve adolescent health
SECTION 5 Women's reproductive and maternal health
18 Introduction to maternal and reproductive health 19 Sexual and reproductive health20 Contraception and abortion
21 Direct maternal deaths
22 Indirect maternal deaths
23 Maternal morbidity
24 Maternal nutrition
25 Maternal mental health
26 Strategies to improve maternal and reproductive health
SECTION 6 Newborn health
27 Introduction to newborn health
28 Stillbirths
29 Preterm births
30 Intrapartum-related events affecting the newborn
31 Neonatal infection
32 Congenital disorders
33 Low birthweight and poor foetal growth
34 Strategies to improve newborn health and prevent stillbirths
SECTION 7 Child health 35 Introduction to child health36 Child infection
37 Child nutrition
38 Child development and disability
39 Non-communicable diseases in childhood
40 Children in difficult circumstances
41 Child injury, maltreatment, and safeguarding
42 Strategies to improve child health
SECTION 8 Influencing policy
43 Ethics and rights
44 Translating research into policy
45 Advocacy to improve health
46 Current challenges and debates for women's, children's, and adolescents' health
Index