Politics and science: reproductive health.

Politics or Technocracy – What Next for Global Health?; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”

Politics play a central part in determining health and development outcomes as Gorik Ooms highlights in his recent commentary. As health becomes more global and more politicized the need grows to better understand the inherently political processes at all levels of governance, such as ideological positions, ideas, value judgments, and power. I agree that global health research should strengthen...

Advancing Global Health – The Need for (Better) Social Science; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”

In his perspective “Navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” Ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. This comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

The Affordable Care Act and reproductive health: potential gains and serious challenges.

After nearly a century of failed or incomplete legislative efforts, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacted by Congress in March 2010, establishes the principle that every American is entitled to affordable and effective health insurance coverage regardless of income or health status. Although many aspects of the act have received broad attention, its impact on reproduct...

P-175: Examine The Role of Social-Legal Trainings To Improve Reproductive Health of Women in Traditional Societies

s:1846:"Reproductive health is only a small part of a series of interconnected it is considered necessary for the subject to come around or to take account of women arises. Reproductive health from the perspective of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, was defined solely from the perspective of biology. Reproductive health was based on the view of "health for al...

Passion, politics and pioneers: the fpa at 75.