Course: Improving the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents: from Evidence to Action

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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Adolescence is a crucial period of rapid development that encompasses significant changes in a person’s life, perhaps second only to that experienced in early childhood. In this step Dr Beverly …