Are you interested in Global Health or International Medicine? The AMA’s student ethics journal, Virtual Mentor recently published a worthwhile article called “Beyond Medical Tourism: Authentic Engagement in Global Health” which provides good advice on how to approach Global Health from a medical student perspective. This short article is a good read for anyone considering going abroad for a ‘medical mission’ or other international health project.
From the University of Pennsylvania Press, comes a new book titled Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward. Edited by Laura Reichenbach of the Population Council and Mindy Jane Roseman of Harvard Law School, the book reflects on the past fifteen years of international efforts surrounding health, poverty, and gender inequality, with special focus on the consequences of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and its resulting Programme of Action.
From the publisher’s website:
The book grapples with fundamental questions about the relationships among population, fertility decline, reproductive health, human rights, poverty alleviation, and development and assesses the various arguments — demographic, public health, human rights-based, and economic — for an against ICPD today.
A number of the chapters address institutional challenges to ICPD and consider how the challenging political, religious, academic, and disciplinary contexts matter. Other chapters engage operational and conceptual issues and whether ICPD has been able to move the reproductive health agenda forward on topics such as maternal mortality, abortion, HIV/AIDS, adolescents, reproductive technologies, and demography. Finally, several chapters examine how ICPD has been sidelined by emerging health and development agendas and what could be done in response. Unlike any book yet published, Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward examines the state of the arguments for reproductive health and rights from a multidisciplinary perspective that provides policymakers, scholars, and activists with a better understanding of how reproductive health and rights have developed, their place in the global policy agenda, and how they might evolve most effectively in the future.
To read an excerpt from the book, click here.
