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Introduction To Reproductive Health

This document provides an introduction to a university course on reproductive health. It defines key terms like health, reproduction, and reproductive health. It explains that reproductive health involves complete physical, mental, and social well-being related to reproductive systems and processes. It describes two forms of reproduction: asexual and sexual. It outlines the importance of reproductive health and notes that comprehensive reproductive healthcare includes services related to family planning, maternal and infant health, gynecology, sexually transmitted infections, and harmful traditional practices. The document aims to provide indicators to measure outputs and impacts across different areas of reproductive health programs.

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Introduction To Reproductive Health

This document provides an introduction to a university course on reproductive health. It defines key terms like health, reproduction, and reproductive health. It explains that reproductive health involves complete physical, mental, and social well-being related to reproductive systems and processes. It describes two forms of reproduction: asexual and sexual. It outlines the importance of reproductive health and notes that comprehensive reproductive healthcare includes services related to family planning, maternal and infant health, gynecology, sexually transmitted infections, and harmful traditional practices. The document aims to provide indicators to measure outputs and impacts across different areas of reproductive health programs.

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Program: B.

Public Health
Course Unit : Reproductive Health
Lecturer: Talemwa Rogers

Introduction to Reproductive health


Content

 What is Reproductive health


 Forms of Reproduction
 Importance of Reproductive Health
 Comprehensive reproductive healthcare.
What is Reproductive Health?
 There are two words we can first define differently.
 Health: Is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely absence of disease or infirmity (illness). World Health Organization
(WHO).
 Reproduction: is the biological process by which new individual organisms
 "offspring" are produced from their "parents".

 Reproductive health is defined as “A state of complete physical, mental, and


social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all
matters related to the reproductive system and to its functions and process”.
This definition is taken and modified from the WHO definition of health.
Forms of reproduction
 Each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction. There are two forms of
reproduction: asexual and sexual.

 By asexual reproduction, an organism creates a genetically similar or identical copy of


itself

 Sexual reproduction typically requires the sexual interaction of two specialized


organisms, called gametes, which contain half the number of chromosomes of normal
cells and are created by meiosis, with typically a male fertilizing a female of the same 
species to create a fertilized zygote.

 This produces offspring organisms whose genetic characteristics are derived from


those of the two parental organisms.
Importance of 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

 Reproductive health addresses the human sexuality and reproductive processes,


functions and system at all stages of life and implies that people are able to have
“a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to
reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so.”

 Reproductive Health Care In adherence to the above definition of reproductive


health, “reproductive health care” is defined as “the entire set of methods,
techniques and services that contribute to reproductive health and its wellbeing.
Comprehensive reproductive health care:
Counseling, information, education, communication and clinical services in family planning
Safe motherhood, including antenatal care, safe delivery care (skilled assistance for delivery with suitable
referral for women with obstetric complications) and postnatal care, breastfeeding and infant and women’s
health care

Gynecological care, including prevention of abortion, treatment of complications of abortion, and safe
termination of pregnancy as allowed by law

Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS), including condom
distribution, universal precautions against transmission of blood borne infections, voluntary testing and
counseling

Prevention and management of sexual violence


Active discouragement of harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation
Reproductive health programmes for specific groups such as adolescents, including information, education,
communication and services
Cont…
 The aim of the shortlist is to provide a set of complementary
indicators(Output/Process indicators) that reflect all areas of reproductive
health.
 They are complementary because they encompass the measurement of
outputs and impacts for a range of reproductive health programme areas.

 NB: Since the “Repoductive Health” indicators are intended for use at
national and global levels as markers of progress towards the specified
goals, direct or proxy measures of impact are most appropriate (Impact
Indicators) These will further be explained in the next class
I hope you will enjoy this
class.
Thank you

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