These resources are provided to assist faculty in developing students’ competencies and awareness regarding sociocultural factors that affect reproductive health care access and delivery. Topics include domestic and sexual violence, Female Genital Cutting, and refugees.
Center for Culture and Health (CCH)
University of New South Wales
http://cch.med.unsw.edu.au/cch.nsf/website/aboutus
Summary: CCH is affiliated with multiple departments at the University of New South Wales including public health and medicine. In addition to providing an extensive list of online resources, users can access cultural competence development materials for medical education by clicking on the Education tab, then the Teaching and Learning Development tab. (Accessed August 20, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers, medical students, training facilitators
Format: Interactive Website
Languages: English
Child Marriage Briefing (2004)|
Population Council
http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/briefingsheets/ETHIOPIA.pdf
http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/briefingsheets/MALI.pdf
http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/briefingsheets/MOZAMBIQUE.pdf
http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/briefingsheets/NIGERIA.pdf
http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/briefingsheets/ZAMBIA.pdf
Summary: The Population Council has produced briefing sheets for Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia to highlight the issue of child and adolescent marriage. The briefs include data on the incidence of child and adolescent marriage, the affect on female reproductive health and maternal health, a discussion of contributing social factors, and recommendations for the promotion of later marriage. (Accessed November 2, 2004)
Audience: Healthcare providers, training facilitators, medical students, and public health professionals
Format: Briefing Sheet
Languages: English
Module 2: Psychosocial Factors, Reproductive Health Model Curriculum, 2 nd Edition (2004)
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
http://www.arhp.org/curriculum
Summary: This module provides comprehensive information on cultural competence, race and ethnicity, mental health, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, disabilities, sexual orientation, religion, gender, and age as they relate to reproductive health. (Accessed August 13, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers, medical educators, medical students, training facilitators
Format: Curriculum module
Languages: English
Domestic and Sexual Violence
Building a Comprehensive Model of Care for Women Victims/Survivors of Sexual Violence that Includes Legal Abortion: Ipas’ Experience in Mexico (2003)
Ipas
http://www.ipas.org/english/publications/dialogue/default.asp
Summary: This newsletter builds on the work of Ipas in Mexico to provide a comprehensive model focused on women and their need for access to quality abortion care. It is designed specifically for female victims of sexual violence. ( Accessed July 20, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers, policymakers
Format: Newsletter
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Justice, Change and Human Rights: International Research and Responses to Domestic Violence (2000)
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
http://www.cedpa.org/publications/pdf/violenceprowid.pdf
Summary: This report assesses the advantages and disadvantages of applying development and human rights-based approaches to eliminating domestic violence. Research for this report covers social trends, public awareness, and professional capacity to address domestic violence. Case studies from Mexico, Bulgaria, and Russia are included as well as lessons learned and recommendations for linking development and human rights methodologies. (Accessed August 13, 2004)
Audience: Health care professionals, policymakers
Format: Report, case studies
Languages: English
Female Genital Cutting: Breaking the Silence, Enabling Change (2000)
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
http://www.icrw.org/docs/FGCfinalpdf.pdf
Summary: This report analyzes the historical community-based and non-governmental efforts and ultimate successes in Egypt, the Gambia, and Senegal to abolish FGC. This analysis also includes a summary of the strategies used to eliminate the practice and clarifies what stakeholders in the three countries believe to be critical elements for strategies that enable communities to abandon FGC. (Accessed August 9, 2004)
Audience: Health care professionals, policymakers
Format: Report
Languages: English
Female Genital Mutilation: A Matter of Human Rights, An Advocate’s Guide to Action (2000)
Center for Reproductive Rights
http://www.crlp.org/pub_bo_fgmhand.html
Summary: This guide provides background information on female genital mutilation (FGM) including the cultural contexts and health risks associated with this practice. Applicable international human rights laws and recommended actions that governments and non-governmental organizations can take to curtail FGM and promote women’s rights are also discussed. (Accessed August 11, 2004)
Audience: P olicymakers, non-governmental organizations
Format: Manual
Languages: English, French
Assessment Tools for Implementing Postabortion Care in Refugee Reproductive Health Programs (2000)
Ipas
http://www.ipas.org/publications/en/assessment_tools_postabortion_refugee.pdf
Summary: This tool provides step-by-step questionnaires for assessing the quality of postabortion care, health service delivery and management based on facility, client and provider evaluations. (Accessed August 9, 2004)
Audience: Health care professionals, program managers
Format: Survey
Languages: English
Clinical Management of Rape Survivors (2002)
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
The World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.the-ecentre.net/toolkit/Health/HTP-8.pdf
Summary: This manual discusses best practices for the clinical management of rape survivors, particularly internally displaced persons or refugees. Means for developing specific protocols to deliver medical care that are adaptable to a variety of situations, national policies and cultural practices are suggested in order to accommodate low-resources and challenging environments. (Accessed August 9, 2004)
Audience: Health care professionals, program managers
Format: Manual
Languages: English
Emergency Contraception for Conflict-Affected Settings: A Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium Distance Learning Module (2004)
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
http://www.rhrc.org/pdf/ec_module_02apr041.pdf
Summary: This module contains information on raising awareness, improving access, and increasing demand for emergency contraception in conflict-affected locations. The module also includes quizzes, frequently asked questions, provider-client scenarios, and additional resources. (Accessed August 25, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers
Format: Curriculum module
Languages: English
The Provider's Guide to Quality & Culture (No date)
Management Sciences for Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services Administration
Bureau of Primary Health Care
http://erc.msh.org/quality&culture
Summary: This Website provides information on culturally sensitive best practices when working with immigrant, refugee, and minority populations. It includes audio and video clips of clinicians, a self-assessment quiz, and more than 400 additional resources. (Accessed August 9, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers
Format: Interactive website, quizzes
Languages: English
Raising Awareness for Reproductive Health in Complex Emergencies: A Training Manual (2002)
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
http://www.rhrc.org/pdf/Fin1Day.pdf
Summary: This comprehensive manual includes training and resource materials, activities, learning objectives, and evaluation tools for teaching reproductive health content to health professionals working with refugees and in conflict situations. (Accessed August 25, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers, training facilitators
Format: Manual
Languages: English
Refugees and Reproductive Health Care: The Next Steps (No date)
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
http://www.rhrc.org/resources/general_reports/nextstep/gr_nextstep2.htm
Summary: This report assesses reproductive health in refugee situations considering refugees’ context, site and reproductive health conditions, sexual and gender violence, and recommendations for next steps. It also includes country profiles from South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. (Accessed August 25, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers
Format: Report
Languages: English
Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations—Lessons from the Field (2001)
Ipas
http://www.ipas.org/english/publications/dialogue/default.asp
Summary: This issue discusses the findings from projects in Nicaragua, Kenya and Albania that establish the pressing need to develop and provide comprehensive reproductive health care systems for internally displaced persons and refugees. (Accessed August 13, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers, aide workers, donor agencies
Format: Newsletter
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations. An Inter-Agency Field Manual (1999)
The World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/interagency_manual_on_RH_in_refugee_situations/index.en.htm
Summary: This comprehensive manual addresses the topics of youth reproductive health, safe motherhood, sexual violence, STIs/HIV/AIDS, family planning and other reproductive health issues in the context of working with refugee populations. It is designed to enhance quality of service delivery in these low-resource settings. (Accessed August 20, 2004)
Audience: Health care providers, program managers
Format: Manual
Languages: English
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