Title: Ethics in family health [editorial]

POPLINE Document Number: 277018

Author(s):

Hassan EO

Source citation:

Egyptian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1999 Apr-Jun;25(4-6):285-289.

Abstract:

The World Health Organization defined "reproductive health" as a condition in which the reproductive process is achieved in a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and that it is not simply the absence of disease. Later, the term "Women's Health" was introduced to emphasize another concept namely that reproductive health should not be limited to mothers or to women in the child-bearing age, but should extent to include the different phases of women's life: infancy, adolescence, the reproductive age as well as the postmenopausal life. Now we speak about "family health" to highlight the fact that women's health cannot exist in isolution from that of her children, and also to acknowledge that men -too- have reproductive health needs that should be fulfilled so as to achieve reproductive health. (excerpt)

Keywords:

Egypt
Critique
Evaluation
Women in Development
Adolescents, Female
Family and Household
Ethics
Reproductive Health
Sex Preselection
Sex Discrimination
Sex Education
Infertility
Family Planning
Abortion
Menopause
Developing Countries
Africa, North
Africa
Economic Development
Economic Factors
Adolescents
Youth
Age Factors
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Health
Reproductive Technologies
Reproduction
Social Discrimination
Social Problems
Education
Fertility Control, Postconception