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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820721403321

Autore

White Arlette Campbell

Titolo

Reproductive health : : the missing millennium development goal : poverty, health, and development in a changing world / / Arlette Campbell White, Thomas W. Merrick, Abdo S. Yazbeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2006]

copyright 2006

ISBN

1-280-51628-3

9786610516285

0-8213-6614-9

Descrizione fisica

xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

MerrickThomas William

YazbeckAbdo

Disciplina

362.198/2

Soggetti

Health

Reproductive health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART I. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN A CHANGING WORLD; FIGURES; TABLES; PART II. TOOLS FOR ADAPTING TO CHANGE; BOXES; PART III. FROM VICTIMS OF REFORM TO DRIVERS OF REFORM; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

While women in developing countries continue to die in large numbers in child birth, Population and Reproductive Health specialists and advocates around the world are struggling to keep the policy agenda focused on the rights and needs of poor women. The 1994 Cairo Conference and Program of Action changed how we do business, and opened many doors, but the agenda is not complete and has stalled in a number of ways. At the country level, governments and donors are making difficult choices about how and where to allocate scarce human and financial resources. Funding approaches have moved away