Reproductive Health Evaluation - Importance and Procedures

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What is reproductive health?

Reproductive health affects the lives of women and men from conception to birth, through adolescence to old age, and includes the attainment and maintenance of good health as well as the prevention and treatment of ill-health (see Box 2, page 6). Reproductive health services cover a wide range of programme areas.

What does the survey tell us about reproductive health?

The survey found high levels of reproductive healthcare need in England, and illustrated the physical, mental, and economic consequences of poor RH for women, their children, and wider society. An accompanying document What does the data tell us? provided a national overview of the current status of RH based on both routine and survey data.

What are reproductive health services?

Reproductive health services cover a wide range of programme areas. Comprehensive reproductive health care includes: counselling, information, education, communication and clinical services in family planning; Box 2. The ICPD definition of reproductive health

Is reproductive health a public health issue?

Reproductive health is a public health issue is a series of 3 documents about reproductive health impacts and healthcare needs of women based on experiences from a survey of 7,500 women and focus group discussions and a consensus statement about reproductive health as a public health issue.

What is a reproductive health indicator?

An indicator must reflect only changes in the issue or factor under consideration. At national level, an indicator must be able to act as a “marker of progress” towards improved reproductive health status, either as a direct or proxy measure of impact or as a measure of progress towards specified process goals.

What Is Reproductive Health Evaluation

1. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phe-womens-reproductive-health-programme-2020-to-2021/womens-reproductive-health-programme-progress-products-and-next-steps
2. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716225/Evaluation_of_sexual_health_interventions.pdf
3. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43185/924156315X_eng.pdf;sequence=1
4. https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789241563154
5. https://www.unfpa.org/resources/guide-tools-assessments-sexual-and-reproductive-health-introduction
6. https://conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13031-019-0221-1

Reproductive Health Evaluation Information

1. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/policy-research-programme-pru-reproductive-health/31173
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791013/
3. https://www.fsrh.org/news/phe-toolkit-evaluation-sexualhealth-interventions/