World Health Organization ; World Health Organization Offeset Publication No. 77: Adolescent Reproductive Health

By Herbert L. Friedman, Dr.

Book Id: WPLBN0000125797
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization ; World Health Organization Offeset Publication No. 77: Adolescent Reproductive Health
Author:	Herbert L. Friedman, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Excerpt
PREFACE For some years now the World Health Organization has recognized the importance of health service research in order to promote the effective provision of services and strengthen primary health care. Vital to the achievement of these objectives is the wellbeing of a rapidly growing segment of the world's population, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America; the adolescent. These young people are the parents of the near future and their health and resourcefulness will be a major factor in determining the health of their families and generations to come. It is for this reason that adolescent reproductive health was seen as a useful focus for this ~ublication which is intended to illustrate an approach to the planning of health service research. The document provides a strategy for identification of needs, an assessment of the degree to which services adequately meet them, and a process for selecting and planning health service research projects to modify services to meet those needs. It has emerged from a series of meetings and workshops undertaken as part of the WHO programme in adolescent reproductive health and is designed to serve health planners, managers and researchers to achieve their goals. It is not intended as a substitute for textbooks and specialized training courses, but rather as a guide to the nature of the questions which must be asked and answered before a successful research project can be undertaken and its findings used in such a way that they have maximal impact on services for the promotion of health. While the approach uses the adolescent population as a model, it can be extended to other population groups in a similar way.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1 . Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 . The adolescent and health needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3 . The adolescent and health services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4 . The adolescent and health service research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5 . Specific research programmes in Sri Lanka and Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Annex 1 . Selected research plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annex 2 Selected bibliography 52