For my last blog post, I would like to focus on a particularly different and interesting intervention for reproductive health education: theatre. The story begins in Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world. Years of civil strife have left the nation, not only with a weak economy, but also without an adequate healthcare [...]
In my previous blogs I have discussed the barriers to safe sex practices among Latinas. As you may recall, I discussed the lack of communication and discussion about sex and sexuality in the Latino community due to the perception of sex as a taboo subject (Erby et. al, 2011). Furthermore, many Latinas experience feelings of [...]
UNESCO lists one NGO devoted to helping dyslexics around the world get a proper education. The name of the NGO is Dyslexia International. Their aim is three fold. First to bring full awareness of the problems associated with dyslexia into education systems worldwide. Secondly, to improve remedial help by making effective assessment and training available [...]
Customarily, the prospects for global education involve implementing Western education techniques on developing societies to culture a “behavior change” and demographic transition, among other social justice jargon. Now, an inventive organization, Invisible Children, combines increasing child education in East Africa with global awareness education abroad to generate funding and increase opportunities for activism. Within Uganda, [...]
Over the course of this class I have highlighted several technologues that are aimed at empowering women but instead are manipulated to exploit the female demographic. It just seems reasonable that a solution to this technology induced situation, is technology itself. This blog post discusses one such intervention that has seen success in India. As [...]
For the last blog post, I will focus on the challenges that African migrant women face in Europe. As seen in other regions, migrant women in Europe are vulnerable to lack of access to health care, labor abuse, and sex trafficking. As of 2009 data, 14.9 million immigrant women live in the twenty-seven countries of [...]
As 2015 quickly approaches, many countries are working hard to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals identified by the World Health Organization. Improving maternal health is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals. It includes reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters and achieving universal access to reproductive health services. (1) Some countries have [...]
In preparation for next week’s discussion on aging, I decided to focus on the role of grandmothers on women’s health education. Many health education programs target young girls and reproductive-aged women. Few organizations recognize the crucial impact older that older women have on individual families and the broader community. Stereotypes such as being against modern [...]
In my previous blog posts on the involvement of men in reproductive health, I discussed the lack of research about the most effective ways to integrate men into health systems and education. Research and experience has established that men’s involvement has an undeniable positive impact on reproductive health outcomes, however little research has been performed [...]
Policy Shaping the Health Services Available to Adolescents in India
In my final blog post, I would like to focus on the specific health services that adolescents have access to in South Asia and how this list is tailored by priorities in government policy. A large picture view of the policies helped me identify with the government’s goals/priorities were for adolescent well-being. In 1983, the [...]