Child Survival Rate Advancements in Tanzania
Tanzania has achieved its target for the Millennium Development Goal 4 for child survival, yet seen slower progress in reducing newborn and maternal deaths. This case study, summarised by Corinne …
Course: Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action
COVID-19 and RMNCAH and Nutrition: “Build Back Better”
COVID-19 has laid bare our deficiencies in both high income and low-middle income countries. As a global pandemic, COVID-19 has impacted all countries politics, economics, policies, and services, not just …
COVID-19 and child health
What about children and COVID-19? While children seem to be less impacted by COVID-19 with possibly fewer infections and definitely fewer deaths, the main concern about child health is the …
Social issues and acceptability: How do barriers affect access to services?
Attitudes towards sex, gender, fertility, and family life permeate how contraception and abortion services are and aren’t provided and how well they are received in communities. In the video, Professor …
Summary of Week 2
We have now reached the end of Week 2. We have learned that there are an estimated 90 million unintended pregnancies around the world each year, and that meeting unmet …
The importance of family planning within reproductive health
Family planning offers many benefits, including empowering women to choose how many children they have, better health and survival of mothers and children, a reduction in poverty, and a better …
Family planning use and unmet need
We’ve determined that family planning has a range of benefits to health and beyond, but what if women can’t access the contraception they want or need? In this step Rebecca …
Every birth wanted: induced abortion
Induced abortion is one of the most socially and politically sensitive topics in reproductive health, and provokes strong emotional responses from many people. In this article, Dr Jenny Cresswell considers …
Every birth wanted: family planning
The International Conference on Population and Development, which took place in Cairo in 1994, established the right of men and women to be informed and have access to safe, effective, …
Summary of Week 1
We hope that you enjoyed learning about the health of adolescents and young people and now understand its importance to and impact upon the lifecycle. In Week 2 we move …
What is reproductive health?
Reproduction is a biological process by which offspring are produced and is a fundamental feature of all life. Sexual reproduction concerns the production of new, living organisms from two individuals …
Adolescent development
As an individual transforms from a child to an adult in the period known as adolescence, they experience great physical, neurological and psychological changes. The various areas of development (physical, …
Health priorities: HIV testing, treatment and care
The next few steps focus on programming for the health of adolescents and young people, considering why, as a demographic group, they’re special or different, and what we can do …
Adolescents and health services
Qualitative research can help to improve health interventions for adolescents and young people. In this video, LSHTM Professor Cicely Marston uses the example of sexual and reproductive health to demonstrate …
Using the Course
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