current status of sexual health and rights indicators in iran: an overview

Current Status of Sexual Health and Rights Indicators in Iran: An Overview

Sexual health and rights indicators provide essential tools for monitoring the status of individuals' sexual health and its rights, in various countries. This paper discusses sexual health and rights indicators in Iran. The indicators under study are derived from similar indicators developed by Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women, for the 15th anniversary of the International C...

Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Zambia

In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) affirmed that Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights (SRH&R) are human rights. Pursuant to this, several international instruments contributed to global consensus on how reproductive health rights are intrinsically linked to other fundamental human rights. The Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) has fully commi...

Urban health indicators and indices—current status

Though numbers alone may be insufficient to capture the nuances of population health, they provide a common language of appraisal and furnish clear evidence of disparities and inequalities. Over the past 30 years, facilitated by high speed computing and electronics, considerable investment has been made in the collection and analysis of urban health indicators, environmental indicators, and met...

[Sexuality, sexual health and Sexual Medicine: current overview].

A sexualidade tem relevância legitimada pela Organização Mundial de Saúde, que a reconhece como um dos pilares da qualidade de vida. É garantido ao ser humano o direito à saúde sexual, que é definida como um estado de bem-estar físico, emocional, mental e social relacionado à sexualidade. Ela pode ser influenciada pelo comportamento sexual, por atitudes, fatores biológicos e predisposição genét...

Global health indicators: an overview.

Poliomyelitis: Current Status in Iran and Worldwide

Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease, which mainly affects young children. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (e.g. contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and can cause paralysis. Initial symptoms of polio include ...