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Women's Reproductive Health in Yemen (Hardcover, New)
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Yemen is an arid and mountainous country in the southern corner of
the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen is mostly rural, with over half the
population below age 15, and more than one-fifth of its 22 million
people are malnourished. One of the poorest Arab countries, Yemen's
birth and population growth rates are also among the world's
highest. With an annual growth rate of 3.4 %, the population could
double by 2030. The country's current fertility rate is 6.2. This
reflects a high birthrate, 39.2 per 1,000 population, and a
declining mortality rate, 11 per 1,000 population. Yemen's infant
mortality rate, however, still ranks as one of the highest in the
world. This includes a mortality rate of 102 per 1,000 live births
for children under 5 years old in 2003. From the late 1980s through
the late 1990s, Yemen experienced a high maternal mortality ratio
of 351 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Maternal deaths
account for about 42% of all deaths among Yemeni women between the
ages of fifteen and forty-nine. Since the unification of Yemen in
1990, several structural reforms and policy changes have been
introduced to control its population growth. Although the
government recognizes population growth as a major challenge to
development, little progress has been made in implementing
population policy and societal consensus remains elusive. Thus, the
structural context of reproduction in Yemen exposes women to a
large number of risks. The disadvantages of poverty and poor health
among women are passed on from one generation to the next. Even
during the course of reproduction, poor women face several threats
to their physical and mental well being. While these disadvantages
have been well chronicled in most societies, not much is known
about reproductive health in many poor Arab countries. But for a
few rich Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, the state of
reproductive health among women in poor Arab states has been hardly
investigated. Although, more recently, several studies have
attempted to document poor reproductive health conditions in this
part of the world, a few countries go unnoticed mostly due to the
lack of access to national level data. The Republic of Yemen, one
of the poorest countries in the Middle East, has for several
reasons failed to draw the attention of social science researchers.
The authors began a number of studies to learn more about Yemeni
women's reproductive health under the conditions of dire social and
economic disadvantages caused by extreme poverty. This book is a
compilation of the authors' studies on Yemen and attempts to draw
conclusions which would not have been possible with a single study.
The book examines the reproductive health of women in Yemen.
Women's reproductive health has emerged as an area of concern among
development agencies and international agencies such as the United
Nations. However, theoretical models for examining reproductive
health appear to lag behind the massive amount of reproductive
health rhetoric in the recent years. Even though there is no
uniform definition of reproductive health, we characterize
reproductive health by focusing on the three components of
fertility: intercourse, conception and gestation. This method
directs attention to the context of reproduction in developing
countries. In addition, the book reveals the previously
underappreciated role of abortion in contributing to the first
stages of fertility decline. The study finds that higher economic
levels and improved social conditions for women do help bring about
real improvements in many dimensions of reproductive health.
Women's Reproductive Health in Yemen is an important book for
scholars in demography and population health.
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