Key issues affecting the status of women

Sadik, N

doi:10.1016/0020-7292(94)90237-2

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“…Family planning is now widely accepted, and women have benefited from it. But even so, only a few countries have limited access to family planning services, while a disproportionately large number has only direct or indirect support to family planning 30…”

Section: Family Planningmentioning

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“…But even so, only a few countries have limited access to family planning services, while a disproportionately large number has only direct or indirect support to family planning. 30 There is provision of family planning services for women wanting to avoid pregnancies, but ironically more often than not, even their contraceptive needs are not met with. Easy accessibility to these would result in saving about 900,000 lives worldwide.…”

Section: Family Planningmentioning

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Reproductive Health and Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Sheth¹

2003

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The art of medicine provides a rare opportunity to understand human values and to contribute toward the well-being of one's fellow humans--women in the case of ob-gyn--a contribution that fits in with the mission of the International Federation of Gynaecology Obstetrics (FIGO). Obstetricians and gynecologists should indeed take it upon themselves to improve conditions for women, since the bond and respect between the two is a significant one. It is obstetricians-gynecologists who can provide the much needed technical information to throw light on justifying services that deal with devastating, debilitating, degenerating, and devaluating situations, such as neglected pregnancy, disregard toward cancer detection, and humiliating genital mutilation. Indeed, this can be termed as "terrorism in ob-gyn," neglected by those who should deal with it. Those in ob-gyn and other medical professions clearly witness gender inequality and its ugly aftermath, a degradation of women's reproductive rights. Ob-gyn must look a little beyond just the lucrative practice of the plain science of obstetrics and gynecology and undertake the responsibility to help and protect the health and life of women around the world. A conscientious doctor cannot practice medicine on women's bodies alone, but must also "practice" against several social evils, the prevention of which is crucial to women's health. Obstetricians and gynecologists can utilize their access to policymakers and health "builders" to carry this brief for women's health, and can urge governments to take a second look at women's rights to ensure that they are on par with the accepted norms of human rights, to be protected and propagated.

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Section: Family Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Family Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproductive Health and Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Sheth¹

2003

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…Powerlessness of women is a serious health hazard. In addition, the impact of the status of women goes beyond the individual woman, to the family, society, country and the world at large [47]. It is only recently that the world is realizing the heavy price it is paying for not empowering women to make decisions in their lives, including reproductive decisions.…”

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Women's health: An overview

Fathalla¹

1994

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

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Endometrial Lesions After Tamoxifen Therapy in Breast Cancer Women

et al. 2001

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Tamoxifen, a nonsteroidal antiestrogen with a partial estrogen-antagonist activity, is widely used as a hormonal adjuvant therapy for breast cancer in women with positive receptors for estrogens. Its prolonged administration has been associated with a series of collateral effects, among which the endometrial carcinoma is the most important. The aim of our study was to investigate an eventual correlation between a therapy with tamoxifen and the onset of endometrial lesions. We recruited 228 postmenopausal patients who had been operated on for breast cancer. They were divided into two groups according to the presence of positive or negative estrogen receptors. The group with positive receptors was subjected to hormonal adjuvant therapy by tamoxifen (20 mg/day for 5 years), while the group with negative receptors was not treated. All the patients underwent a hysteroscopic evaluation of the uterine cavity before and after treatment. The follow-up carried out 5 years later showed the presence of a statistically higher risk (p < 0.00001) of endometrial lesions, such as low glandular hyperplasia and polyps, than in the treated patients compared with untreated patients. On the other hand, because there was no onset of endometrial carcinoma, the risk of this kind of lesion turned out to be practically absent. In all the treated patients who did not evidence any endometrial lesions (n = 90) and in all those with negative receptors (n = 104) the endometrium seemed to have an atrophic aspect. In conclusion, according to these data, we believe that hormonal adjuvant therapy by tamoxifen (20 mg/day), associated with a periodic hysteroscopic evaluation, and eventually a directed biopsy of the endometrium in order to keep under control the frequent onset of benign endometrial lesions, does not absolutely seem to increase the risk of endometrial carcinoma.

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Key issues affecting the status of women

Cited by 3 publications

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Reproductive Health and Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Reproductive Health and Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Women's health: An overview

Endometrial Lesions After Tamoxifen Therapy in Breast Cancer Women

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