Women's reproductive health: monotheistic religious perspectives

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Monotheistic Faith Perspectives on Brain Death, DNR, Patient Autonomy and Health Care Costs

Dr. Khan: First, I wanted to share with you three personal experiences regarding this topic. My first experience with death occurred at my home in Kashmir when as a medical student I was asked to evaluate my father’s mother because she did not look well. I put a cotton strip under her nose; there was no movement. I put the stethoscope to her chest; there was no heartbeat. I announced that Grand...

Culture and religious beliefs in relation to reproductive health.

An increasing number of contemporary research publications acknowledge the influence of religion and culture on sexual and reproductive behavior and health-care utilization. It is currently hypothesized that religious influences can partly explain disparities in sexual and reproductive health outcomes. In this paper, we will pay particular attention to Muslims in sexual and reproductive health ...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)