This volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date theoretical and empirical background to the psychology of reproductive health. Provides a life span perspective of reproductive health and its disorders, from fetal development throughmenarche to menopause and reproductive health in older age Focuses on issues of the individual's reproductive health experience, including reproduction, pregnancy, maternity, and birth, as well as conditions such as premenstrual dysphoric disorder and dysmenorrhea, and events including pregnancy failure, and abortion Acknowledges wider social context with discussions of poverty, inequality, educational and economic status, age, and urban versus rural access Addresses life style related factors, human rights to choice, information and access, fertility control and reproductive health regulation and health care services Illustrates topics with empirical data supported with tables and figures
- ISBN: 978-0-470-68337-8
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha Publicación: 09/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés