TY - JOUR
T1 - Risks and rights
T2 - The uses of reproductive health data
AU - Maine, Deborah
AU - Freedman, Lynn
AU - Shaheed, Farida
AU - Frautschi, Schuyler
AU - Akalin, Murat Z.
PY - 1995/11
Y1 - 1995/11
N2 - This paper describes the multiple ways that the concept of risk is used in the health field, looking specifically at maternal mortality, contraceptive mortality and morbidity, and HIV/AIDS. Although risk data are often presented as objective and neutral, the paper shows how decisions about policies, programmes and individual treatment inevitably require value-laden choices to be made. It argues that reproductive rights principles should play a critical role in guiding such decision-making and puts forward a concept of reproductive rights that addresses both women's individual decisions about their health and the broader social and structural context in which such decisions are made and implemented.
AB - This paper describes the multiple ways that the concept of risk is used in the health field, looking specifically at maternal mortality, contraceptive mortality and morbidity, and HIV/AIDS. Although risk data are often presented as objective and neutral, the paper shows how decisions about policies, programmes and individual treatment inevitably require value-laden choices to be made. It argues that reproductive rights principles should play a critical role in guiding such decision-making and puts forward a concept of reproductive rights that addresses both women's individual decisions about their health and the broader social and structural context in which such decisions are made and implemented.
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U2 - 10.1016/0968-8080(95)90158-2
DO - 10.1016/0968-8080(95)90158-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0009013388
SN - 0968-8080
VL - 3
SP - 40
EP - 51
JO - Reproductive Health Matters
JF - Reproductive Health Matters
IS - 6
ER -
