The unfinished agenda of women's reproductive health.

Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation

In recent health policy papers, the social sciences insist that given the increased risks of heart diseases, diabetes, and other chronic conditions women face worldwide, biomedical research should step away from reducing female health to female reproductive health. Arguably the global women's health agenda goes much beyond reproductive concerns, but we contend that it is mistaken to conceptuali...

Reorienting women's health in low- and middle-income countries: the case of depression and Type 2 diabetes

Women's health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has historically focused on sexual and reproductive health. However, understanding how women acquire, experience, and treat non-reproductive health conditions, such as non-communicable diseases, has become a fundamental public health concern. Special attention to the social determinants of LMIC women's health can provide socially and cu...

The state of global health in 2014.

The global health landscape looks more promising than ever, although progress has been uneven. Here, we describe the current global burden of disease throughout the life cycle, highlighting regional differences in the unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and reproductive, maternal, and child health and the additive burden of emerging noncommunicable diseases and injuries. Understanding th...

Maternal Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Unfinished Agenda

The impact of family planning on women's lives: expanding the research agenda.

Women's reproductive health, quality of life, human rights, and status in society have become the focus for international development and public health programs in the 1990s. This reflects a growing awareness that population programs and policies have often failed to take women's needs into account and excluded women from programmatic decision making. Needed is a new research agenda aimed at d...