Investigating Reproductive Tract Infections and Other Gynaecological Disorders : A Multidisciplinary Research Approach

Content: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction and overview; 2 Defining reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological morbidities; 3 The social context of gynaecological morbidity: correlates, consequences and health seeking behaviour; 4 Reproductive health: men's roles and men's rights; 5 Study design for the measurement of gynaecological morbidity; 6 Alternatives to community-based study designs for research on women's gynaecological morbidity. 7 Community interaction in studies of gynaecological morbidity: experiences in Egypt, India and UgandaEgypt: the Giza reproductive morbidity study; India: the Gadchiroli study of gynaecological diseases; Uganda: the Rakai project; 8 Definitions of clinically diagnosed gynaecological morbidity resulting from reproductive tract infection; 9 Laboratory tests for the detection of reproductive tract infections; 10 Laboratory methods for the diagnosis of reproductive tract infections and selected cond. Abstract: Women's reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological disorders, are an enormous global health burden. This significant new book will help focus research in this important though neglected area. The book takes an international perspective and recognises that gathering information in this area in different societies, requires a sensitive, multidisciplinary approach Reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological disorders among women represent an enormous global health burden. This significant book will help focus research on this important though neglected area. The primary aims of the book are to provide an overview of reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological disorders, to highlight the conceptual and methodological challenges associated with undertaking research on this subject, and to serve as a reference for future research in this area. The book focuses on developing country settings, and recognizes that gathering this sort of information requires a multidisciplinary and culturally sensitive approach. Findings from the research described in this book will undoubtedly assist physicians, social scientists, epidemiologists and public health practitioners in evaluating the magnitude of this problem within the community at large and in identifying potentially effective medical and behavioural interventions to address this problem. "Reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological disorders among women represent an enormous global health burden. This book will help focus research on this important though neglected area. The primary aims of the book are to provide an overview of reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological disorders, to highlight the conceptual and methodological challenges associated with undertaking research on this subject, and to serve as a reference for future research in this area. The book focuses on developing country settings, and recognises that gathering this sort of information requires a multidisciplinary and culturally sensitive approach. Findings from the research described in this book will assist physicians, social scientists, epidemiologists and public health practitioners in evaluating the magnitude of this problem within the community at large and in identifying new potentially effective medical and behavioural interventions to address this problem."--BOOK JACKET Since the late 1980s, several studies have highlighted the widespread prevalence of reproductive tract infections and gynaecological morbidities within community settings.