Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction

by Murray, Christopher J. L.; Lopez, Alan D.

• ISBN13: 9780674383357
• ISBN10: 0674383354
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Harvard Sch of Public Health

Summary

practitioners and advocates of STD and HIV prevention, and reproductive and neonatal health.

Table of Contents

GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY SERIES FOREWORD	iii	(2)
Ralph H. Henderson
GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AND INJURY SERIES FOREWORD	v	(10)
Dean T. Jamison
FOREWORD	xv	(4)
Adrienne Germain
FOREWORD	xix	(4)
Tomris Turmen
PREFACE	xxiii	(2)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xxv
CHAPTER 1. QUANTIFYING THE HEALTH RISKS OF SEX AND REPRODUCTION: IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE DEFINITIONS	1	(18)
Christopher J.L. Murray
Alan D. Lopez
CHAPTER 2. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES	19	(92)
Jane Rowley
Seth Berkley
CHAPTER 3. MATERNAL MORTALITY OVERVIEW	111	(54)
Carla AbouZahr
CHAPTER 4. ANTEPARTUM AND POSTPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE	165	(26)
Carla AbouZahr
CHAPTER 5. PUERPERAL SEPSIS AND OTHER PUERPERAL INFECTIONS	191	(28)
Carla AbouZahr
Elisabeth Ahman
Richard Guidotti
CHAPTER 6. HYPERTENSIVE DISORDERS OF PREGNANCY	219	(24)
Carla AbouZahr
Richard Guidotti
CHAPTER 7. PROLONGED AND OBSTRUCTED LABOUR	243	(24)
Carla AbouZahr
CHAPTER 8. UNSAFE ABORTION AND ECTOPIC PREGNANCY	267	(30)
Carla AbouZahr
Elisabeth Ahman
CHAPTER 9. HIV AND AIDS	297	(92)
Daniel Low-Beer
Rand Stoneburner
Thierry Mertens
Anthony Burton
Seth Berkley
CHAPTER 10. LOW BIRTH WEIGHT	389	(40)
Kenji Shibuya
Christopher J.L. Murray
CHAPTER 11. BIRTH ASPHYXIA	429	(26)
Kenji Shibuya
Christopher J.L. Murray
CHAPTER 12. CONGENITAL ANOMALIES	455	(58)
Kenji Shibuya
Christopher J.L. Murray
CHAPTER 13. UNSAFE SEX AS A RISK FACTOR	513	(24)
Seth Berkley
INDEX	537