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Sexual and reproductive health of adolescents in Belgium, the Czech Republic, E...
Fronteira, Inês; Silva, Miguel Oliveira da; Unzeitig, Vit; Karro, Helle; Temmerman, MarleenObjectives This pilot study, within the REPROSTAT 2 Project, aimed at investigating the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of school-based youths in four countries of the European Union. Methods Students of either sex, aged between 16 and 19 years and entering grade 10, 11 or 12 during the 2005–2006 school year participated in a cross sectional survey. A structured questionnaire was administered to a convenie...
Reflections on the legalisation of abortion in Portugal
Silva, Miguel Oliveira daInduced abortion up to ten completed weeks has been legal in Portugal since April 2007. In 1984 and 1997,two laws decriminalised abortion in three different situations: (1) For maternal indications (up to 12 completed weeks); (2) For fetal indications (up to 16 completed weeks since 1984, and up to 24 completed weeks since 1997); (3) In case of rape, renamed since 1997 ‘crime against sexual freedom’ (up to 12 c...
The feasibility of European reproductive health indicators
Gissler, Mika; Hannikainen-Ingman, Katri; Donati, Serena; Jahn, Albrecht; Silva, Miguel Oliveira da; Hemminki, ElinaObjective The elaboration of a European health monitoring system is an ongoing process. Our aim was to study the availability, feasibility and comparability of the reproductive health indicators and to illustrate whether cross-country comparisons are feasible for pinpointing areas of concern and future research. Methods We surveyed 18 reproductive health indicators from eight countries: Finland, France, Germany...
Factors associated with teenage pregnancy in the European Union countries : a s...
Imamura, Mari; Tucker, Janet; Hannaford, Phil; Silva, Miguel Oliveira da; Astin, Margaret; Wyness, Laura; Bloemenkamp, Kitty W. M.; Jahn, AlbrechtBackground: As part of the REPROSTAT2 project, this systematic review aimed to identify factors associated with teenage pregnancy in 25 European Union countries. Methods: The search strategy included electronic bibliographic databases (1995 to May 2005), bibliographies of selected articles and requests to all country representatives of the research team for relevant reports and publications. Primary outcome mea...
Monitoring reproductive health in Europe : what are the best indicators of repr...
Albrecht, Jahn; Bloemenkamp, Kitty W. M.; Hannaford, Philip; Olsen, Jorn; Silva, Miguel Oliveira da; Temmerman, MarleenThe 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...
Reproductive health indicators in the European Union : The REPROSTAT project
Temmerman, Marleen; Foster, Lauren Beth; Hannaford, Philip; Cattaneo, Adriano; Olsen, Jørn; Bloemenkamp, Kitty W. M.; Jahn, AlbrechtOur 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 ...