{"title":"Contraception Today (8th edn).","authors":"Shamela de Silva","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101763","url":null,"abstract":"John Guillebaud. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-1-498-71460-0. Price: £38.99. Pages: 187 (paperback)\u0000\u0000This pocket book, while requiring the use of larger pockets over the years, continues to be in a format that is easy to read, engaging and portable.\u0000\u0000The main text is conversational, and practical points are clearly presented as bullet point lists and with pathways given as flow diagrams, which considerably aid the retention of information. There are also photographs of many …","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101763","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34791854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katarina Tvarozkova, Kathryn Killicoat, Helen Munro, Abha Govind
{"title":"Comment on 'Postpartum contraception: a missed opportunity to prevent unintended pregnancy and short inter-pregnancy intervals'.","authors":"Katarina Tvarozkova, Kathryn Killicoat, Helen Munro, Abha Govind","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101562","url":null,"abstract":"Heller et al. 1 highlight the potential gap in providing contraception care postpartum. We also saw a missed opportunity to educate postnatal patients about contraception on our wards and to supply such care before discharge.\u0000\u0000We work in a busy culturally and ethnically diverse area of outer London, with 5300 deliveries annually. We carried out a short face-to-face survey of 50 women who had delivered during the previous week. Twenty-two of the women did not have English as their first language. Their median age was 30 (range 17–43) years, with 36 having a higher education qualification. Average parity following the index pregnancy was two, with 32 women …","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101562","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34907412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On being an expert witness in sexual and reproductive health.","authors":"Sam Rowlands","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2015-101385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2015-101385","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new generation of expert witnesses in sexual and reproductive health is needed, including those in nursing as well as medical roles. Being an expert witness is a significant commitment alongside clinical work. Nevertheless, the work is stimulating and rewarding. Training is essential before starting medicolegal work. In particular expert witnesses need to be able to apply appropriate legal tests to the evidence, to deal with the range of expert opinion on a matter, and explain clearly what constitutes an appropriate standard of care for a clinician in their discipline and specialty. Expert witnesses must be aware of pitfalls such as being sued for substandard work and being reported to their professional regulator for straying outside their area of expertise. Expert witnesses must be truly independent and ideally their reports should be the same whoever they receive their instructions from. In addition to report writing, expert witnesses are required to comment on court documents, participate in conferences with a barrister and hold formal discussions with an opposing expert witness. Expert witnesses need to be administratively efficient and responsive. Although appearance in court is not that common, this is an essential part of the role. Apart from litigation in the civil courts, other types of case may present themselves including patent cases, work in the Court of Protection and health professionals' Fitness to Practise hearings.</p>","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"151-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2015-101385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34443605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Venus.","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101662","url":null,"abstract":"Regardless of whether they continue, romantic relationships teach romantic competency “Romantic competency”, a term Venus came across in her reading recently, is the skill required to develop healthy romantic relationships, and starts for most of us as teenagers. Working on the hypothesis that relationship skills would improve with exposure to more relationships, allowing individuals to build on their experiences over time, researchers conducted a qualitative, interview-based, longitudinal study involving over 400 American teenagers. For both those whose relationships endured and those whose relationships ended, all experiences resulted in learning important adult relationship skills. These included romantic agency (the ability to regulate emotionally intense experiences including conflict), coherence (the ability to integrate both positive and negative aspects of relationships) and social maturity.","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"189-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101662","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34905832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shyam Sundar Budhathoki, Meika Bhattachan, Paras K Pokharel, Madhurima Bhadra, Edwin van Teijlingen
{"title":"Reusable sanitary towels: promoting menstrual hygiene in post-earthquake Nepal.","authors":"Shyam Sundar Budhathoki, Meika Bhattachan, Paras K Pokharel, Madhurima Bhadra, Edwin van Teijlingen","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101481","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is a normal human tendency to 'run for your life' when an earthquake occurs. Adolescent girls and women of reproductive age leave their homes with only the clothes they are wearing to save their own and their families' lives. Immediate disaster relief aid with its (unintentional) lack of gender sensitivity has little or no materials for the appropriate management of menstrual hygiene. The biological needs of disaster-affected women will not change despite the dire need for basic food, shelter and security. Timely identification and preparation beforehand with appropriate and culturally sensitive techniques and locally available materials that are reusable can help introduce sustainable and acceptable means of managing menstrual hygiene in a crisis. The use of reusable sanitary towels is well accepted for menstrual hygiene management in non-disaster situations and is appropriate in post-earthquake relief in Nepal.</p>","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"157-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101481","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34742836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum: 'Reforming abortion services in the UK: less hypocrisy, more acknowledgment of complexity'.","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101696corr1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101696corr1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101696corr1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34907409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges to understanding the reproductive health needs of women forcibly displaced by the Syrian conflict.","authors":"Jocelyn DeJong","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101771","url":null,"abstract":"West et al ’s article in this journal issue looks at barriers to the uptake of family planning among Syrian women living in Jordan in one of the largest camps for Syrian refugees worldwide.1 The article makes a contribution to a growing but still limited literature on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in humanitarian settings. The gap has been particularly acute for those forcibly displaced by the Syrian conflict that started in 2011. In particular, there has been limited published literature on the internally displaced within Syria2 – currently estimated at over 6.5 million individuals.3 The sparse literature tends to be on those living as refugees in neighbouring countries including Lebanon and Jordan, where registered Syrian refugees now make up approximately 1 in 6 and 1 in 12 of residents, respectively. Unlike the Syrians fleeing the conflict to Europe, among whom men predominate, these refugee populations in neighbouring countries have a high proportion of women and children. This poses a high demand on reproductive health services; it is estimated that in Lebanon and Jordan in 2015, 25% of registered Syrian refugees were women and girls of reproductive age and of these 2% were pregnant.4 Moreover, as a middle-income country before the conflict, the health profile differs from low-income settings, where much of the research on SRH among refugees has been focused to date. Nevertheless, …","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"103-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101771","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34907410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Heller, Sharon Cameron, Rosie Briggs, Norma Forson, Anna Glasier
{"title":"Authors' response to comment on 'Postpartum contraception: a missed opportunity to prevent unintended pregnancy and short inter-pregnancy intervals'.","authors":"Rebecca Heller, Sharon Cameron, Rosie Briggs, Norma Forson, Anna Glasier","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101759","url":null,"abstract":"We welcome Tvarozkova et al. 's1 investigation of their patient population's knowledge about postnatal contraception, and we agree that postnatal care currently represents a missed opportunity. However we would question the plan for a dedicated postnatal contraception service, in the absence of antenatal contraceptive counselling. The difficulty with a postpartum-only service is that discussing contraception …","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"164-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101759","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34907413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rosamund Snow: researcher and campaigner for patients' involvement in healthcare: (born 1971, died by suicide on 2 February 2017).","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101768","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34905830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to 'WHO classification of FGM omission and failure to recognise some women's vulnerability to cosmetic vaginal surgery'.","authors":"Lucy Cox","doi":"10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101753","url":null,"abstract":"Many thanks to Hermione Lovel for her letter1 commending my personal view article on the vulva.2 I welcome the discussion as a way to further explore and emphasise this important topic. I want to respond to the points raised by Dr Lovel in turn.\u0000\u0000I agree wholeheartedly with Dr Lovel that using international terminology is helpful in describing female genital mutilation (FGM), which is why I used, and …","PeriodicalId":15734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care","volume":"43 2","pages":"166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jfprhc-2017-101753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34762852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}