The article focuses on the of the sexual and reproductive heath (SRH) report analyzing SRH policies within the European Union (EU) member states. It states that the report identifies disparities in five areas of SRH in EU member states including contraception use and its policies, teenage sexual behavior, and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and induced abortions. The report's general and specific SRH r...
The main impact of the World Health Organization’s Health for All 2000 programme was probably related to its focus upon using health indicators as health policy goals rather than productivity or cost alone. The vision was that healthcare planning would be prepared by people with expertise in public health, clinical medicine as well as economics and management. Health professionals should outline the paths to ac...
Our objective was to develop a set of indicators for monitoring and describing reproductive health in the European Union (EU) that reflect common concerns of the different Member States. Ideally, the indicators would possibly draw upon existing data sources. The REPROSTAT project: (i) conducted a review of existing recommendations on reproductive health indicators; (ii) suggested a set of initial indicators in ...