Marge Berer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1411430 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marge Berer |
| PRENOMES | Marge |
| SOBRENOME | Berer |
| ASSINATURA | BERER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Public Health England |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6139-497X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Farewell, but not goodbye
The November 2014 RHM journal was my last as RHM’s editor, and I’ve stayed on this year to support Shirin Heidari as the new editor during a transition period. My best wishes go with her! It’s hard to believe that it’s been 23 years since Sundari and I went to see Jose Barzelatto at the Ford Foundation and convinced him to give us funding to publish two journal issues, with the promise of more if the quality was good enough. The two themes we add…
Unsafe Abortion and Women's Health
Unsafe Abortion and Women's Health: Change and Liberalization." Gender & Development, 23(3), pp. 565–566
The history and role of the criminal law in anti-FGM campaigns
The history of campaigns against female genital mutilation (FGM) began in the 1920s. From the beginning, it was recognised that FGM was considered an important rite of passage between childhood and adulthood for girls, based on the importance of controlling female sexuality to maintain chastity and family honour, and to make girls marriageable. How to separate the “cut” from these deeply held norms is a question not yet adequately answered, yet I…
The sustainable development agenda and unmet need for sexual and reproductive health and rights
In the lead-up to the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, thousands of people have travelled tens of thousands of miles, circling the globe many times, contributing to climate change, to attend consultations, official meetings and sessions and stay up all night in negotiations on content and language, arguing sometimes successfully and with great excitement, and sometimes bitterly and in anger, about what the new sustainable development age…
Using the law and the courts
AcknowledgementsMany thanks to Pathika Martin for substantial input into this editorial and to all the RHM staff, translators, editorial teams, board members and designer/production manager Carol Brickley, SPI and Witherbys, Greyling Peoples and Elsevier for unstinting work and support for RHM over many years.Using the law and the courtsAll authorsMarge Bererhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(14)44822-5Published online:30 December 2014Display ful…
Expanding access to medical abortion
Medical abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol (or misoprostol alone in settings where mifepristone has not yet been approved or made available) is a safe and effective method of terminating both early and later pregnancies. Misoprostol tablets can also be used to manage incomplete abortion and miscarriage. When used in early pregnancy, medical abortion can be provided at a primary care facility and by nonphysician providers. 1 The over thre…
Termination of pregnancy as emergency obstetric care
Issues arising from the death of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland in October 2012 include the question of whether it is unethical to refuse to terminate a non-viable pregnancy when the woman's life may be at risk. In Catholic maternity services, this decision intersects with health professionals' interpretation of Catholic health policy on treatment of miscarriage as well as the law on abortion. This paper explores how these issues came together ar…
Young people, sex and relationships
The overarching messages from the papers in this journal issue are that: 1) adolescents and young people want and need sexual health information and health care, provided with a sex-positive approach to sex, sexuality, sexual identity and relationships; 2) those providing it need specialist training; and 3) adolescent and youth leadership and involvement in policy, activities and programmes are crucial. Adolescents and young people want to know a…
A new development paradigm post-2015, a comprehensive goal for health that includes sexual and reproductive health and rights, and another for gender equality
“These are our bottom lines... We are counting on all governments to have the courage to champion the ‘controversial’ issues by addressing the difficult realities, many of which are related to the ro
Maternal mortality or women's health
This journal issue begins with a poem about the “woman too hapless / to grace dinner-conferences / held in her name / at exclusive venues” (Sebina) because her life – and death – still do not count
Sexual and reproductive morbidity
Privatisation in health systems in developing countries
This editorial focuses on how well the private sector is servings its clientele in health systems of developing countries and states that it is a serious problem which governments donors independent researchers and health advocates need to confront and address. It discusses: the effect of MDG5 on attention to sexual and reproductive health using quantitative data to assess access equity and service utilization a health systems approach to sexual …
Repoliticising sexual and reproductive health and rights
This editorial explores what is happening globally towards achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights. It discusses the perceived fragmentation of work in this field and the de-politicization of the process and the goals involved as the number of issues groups and networks involved has burgeoned. It makes a call to re-politicize sexual and reproductive health and rights and identifies political tools to solve problems. In addition it dis…
Labia reduction for non-therapeutic reasons vs. female genital mutilation
IN the 26 May 2007 edition of the British Medi cal Journal (BMJ), two British psychologists reported that the numbers of requests from women for surgery to alter the appearance of their genitals, especially the labia, were increas ing.1 In examining this phenomenon, the authors asked: how should health care providers respond to requests for this surgery? From this and other literature on this subject, a picture emerges of a growing number of wome…
Who has responsibility for health in a privatised health system
The world economy has been controlled by neoliberal economic policies and practices in the absence of an effective alternative for more than half a century. Neoliberal economics has penetrated not
Cosmetic surgery, body image and sexuality
Cosmetic surgery is not a new phenomenon. Facelifts, nose jobs, breast reduction and breast implants have been common among women for decades, and the profession and practice of cosmetic surgery is
Criminalisation, sexual and reproductive rights, public health - and justice
Task-shifting
This editorial piece discusses the innovative efforts to increase access to skilled reproductive health care especially in resource-poor settings where physicians are in short supply or physicians are not necessary due to trained mid-level providers performing procedures. It also examines the lack of capacity or failure of developing countries to build and strengthen their health systems and develop a strong well-trained public health workforce
A Critical Appraisal of Laws on Second Trimester Abortion1
There will always be women who need abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, and their reasons are often compelling. Although second trimester abortions carry relatively more risks than first trimester abortions, abortion is still very safe throughout the second trimester if done in safe conditions. This paper is about law and policy on second trimester abortions, which are allowed on more restrictive grounds than first trimester abortions in most …
Second Trimester Abortion
On 29–31 March 2007 the International Consortium for Medical Abortion (ICMA) convened a three-day conference in London to address second trimester abortion.* * International Conference on Second Tr
Male circumcision for HIV prevention
This conference presentation discusses male circumcision and its value in HIV prevention. It examines the thought process of those men who have been circumcised advocates for women’s rights and declares that the promotion of safer sex needs more sufficient funding. It also includes suggestions to monitoring male circumcision programmes and insists on men involving their partners when seeking circumcision
A Critical Appraisal of Laws on Second Trimester Abortion
There will always be women who need abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, and their reasons are often compelling. Although second trimester abortions carry relatively more risks than first trimester abortions, abortion is still very safe throughout the second trimester if done in safe conditions. This paper is about law and policy on second trimester abortions, which are allowed on more restrictive grounds than first trimester abortions in most …
Reproductive cancers
It has taken this journal 16 years to focus on reproductive cancers, and there is no excuse for that. There are many others in the field who have equally inexcusably neglected this important health
So far so good
BECAUSE sexual and reproductive health problems are near-universal experiences, it has always been clear to me that I could expect to go through many of the problems that my work is about. I've used half a dozen brands and types of the contraceptive pill, highand low-dose, combined and progestogen-only ones. I was in an early trial of the copper-7 IUD. For many years I used condoms, which is why I feel I can promote them so much. I've had thrush …
Taking on the Opposition, Male Circumcision and Other Themes
THIS journal issue has at least two themes. The originally announced theme is about strategies for taking on the opposition to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Not surprisingly abortion is the subject of several of the papers. Interestingly the issues of support and opposition in relation to abortion law and policy are analysed from the point of view of Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (Hessini) the role of the parliament in re…
Termination of pregnancy as emergency obstetric care
Issues arising from the death of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland in October 2012 include the question of whether it is unethical to refuse to terminate a non-viable pregnancy when the woman's life may be at risk. In Catholic maternity services, this decision intersects with health professionals' interpretation of Catholic health policy on treatment of miscarriage as well as the law on abortion. This paper explores how these issues came together ar…
Dual Protection
Although non-barrier contraceptive use has become a global norm, unprotected sex in relation to sexually transmitted infections remains the norm almost everywhere. Dual protection is protection from unwanted pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and is a form of safer sex for heterosexual couples that is more needed than practised or understood. This paper draws on a review of the literature in family planning, obstetrics and …
Medical Abortion
Although more than one method of abortion has been available for many years, in most countries the provider chooses the method and may be skilled in one method only. This paper discusses choice and acceptability of medical abortion from the perspective of both women and abortion providers and argues that choice of method is important for both. Safety, efficacy, number of visits, how the method works, how long it takes for the abortion to be compl…
Making Abortions Safe
Globally, abortion mortality accounts for at least 13% of all maternal mortality. Unsafe abortion procedures, untrained abortion providers, restrictive abortion laws and high mortality and morbidity from abortion tend to occur together. Preventing mortality and morbidity from abortion in countries where these remain high is a matter of good public health policy and medical practice, and constitutes an important part of safe motherhood initiatives…
Whatever Happened to 'A Woman's Right to Choose
The phrase 'women's reproductive rights' to describe the concept of women's right to decide if, when and how to have children has only been around since about 1979. It was first coined in the USA by feminists who formed the campaigning Reproductive Rights National Network. The concept itself is new in that it links up all the different aspects of birth control and childbearing which previously had been campaigned on separately by women. Stretchin…
Making Abortion a Woman's Right Worldwide
This is RHM's 10th anniversary year and the third journal issue in which RHM has focused on abortion since 1993 [1]. Looking back, it is heartening to see how much has changed internationally in th
Living without children
(1999). Living without children. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 7, Living without children, pp. 7-12
Maternal mortality or women's health
This journal issue begins with a poem about the “woman too hapless / to grace dinner-conferences / held in her name / at exclusive venues” (Sebina) because her life – and death – still do not count
HIV/Aids, Sexual and Reproductive Health
HIV has a myriad of effects on the sexual and reproductive health of both men and women, and sexual and reproductive health services are of central importance for those with HIV and AIDS. The aim o
Privatisation in health systems in developing countries
This editorial focuses on how well the private sector is servings its clientele in health systems of developing countries and states that it is a serious problem which governments donors independent researchers and health advocates need to confront and address. It discusses: the effect of MDG5 on attention to sexual and reproductive health using quantitative data to assess access equity and service utilization a health systems approach to sexual …
Repoliticising sexual and reproductive health and rights
This editorial explores what is happening globally towards achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights. It discusses the perceived fragmentation of work in this field and the de-politicization of the process and the goals involved as the number of issues groups and networks involved has burgeoned. It makes a call to re-politicize sexual and reproductive health and rights and identifies political tools to solve problems. In addition it dis…
Cosmetic surgery, body image and sexuality
Cosmetic surgery is not a new phenomenon. Facelifts, nose jobs, breast reduction and breast implants have been common among women for decades, and the profession and practice of cosmetic surgery is
Criminalisation, sexual and reproductive rights, public health - and justice
Male circumcision for HIV prevention
This conference presentation discusses male circumcision and its value in HIV prevention. It examines the thought process of those men who have been circumcised advocates for women’s rights and declares that the promotion of safer sex needs more sufficient funding. It also includes suggestions to monitoring male circumcision programmes and insists on men involving their partners when seeking circumcision
Reproductive cancers
It has taken this journal 16 years to focus on reproductive cancers, and there is no excuse for that. There are many others in the field who have equally inexcusably neglected this important health
Ensuring the Sexual and Reproductive Health of People Living with HIV
“Although the sexual and reproductive health-related rights, needs and aspirations of HIV positive women and men are very similar to those of men and women not infected with HIV, some key biologica
Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
FOR more than a decade those working in the field of sexual and reproductive health have been calling for male involvement of various kinds. When men are actually expected to do something specific however the success rates have been very uneven. Very few men have had vasectomies for example except in a handful of countries as compared to the number of women who have been sterilised when they no longer wish to have more children. On the other hand…
Sexuality, Rights and Social Justice
The term “sexual rights” consists of the little discussed and poorly understood combination of the concepts of “sexuality” and “rights”. Perhaps the unease about sexual rights would be lessened if
Health Sector Reforms
Since the mid-1980s long before the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994 fundamental changes have been taking place in the financing management and structure of health care provision described at length in the 1993 World Bank Report. These changes include reforms in: mechanisms for health financing priority setting and accountability the structure of national health systems and the role of the state in he…
Images, reproductive health and the collateral damage to women of fundamentalism and war
(2001). Images, reproductive health and the collateral damage to women of fundamentalism and war. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 9, Images / Services, pp. 6-11
Why reproductive health and rights
(1997). Why reproductive health and rights: Because I am a woman. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 5, The international women's health movement, pp. 16-20
Fundamentalism, women's empowerment and reproductive rights
(1996). Fundamentalism, women's empowerment and reproductive rights. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 4, Fundamentalism and reproductive rights, pp. 7-10
Men
Contraceptive safety and effectiveness
This essay introduces a series of articles on contraceptive safety and effectiveness and provides an overview discussion of the topic. While everyone agrees that contraceptives should be safe the definition of safety differs when considered from different points of view. Different concepts of safety may occur between policy-makers and scientists during the research phase as evidenced by the recent controversy about research into contraceptive vac…
Population and family planning policies
(1993). Population and family planning policies: women-centred perspectives. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 1, Population and family planning policies, pp. 4-12
Whatever Happened to 'A Woman's Right to Choose
The phrase 'women's reproductive rights' to describe the concept of women's right to decide if, when and how to have children has only been around since about 1979. It was first coined in the USA by feminists who formed the campaigning Reproductive Rights National Network. The concept itself is new in that it links up all the different aspects of birth control and childbearing which previously had been campaigned on separately by women. Stretchin…
Ten Years of Women's Health
Making abortion safe and legal. The ethics and dynamics of change
(1993). Making abortion safe and legal. The ethics and dynamics of change. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 1, Making abortion safe and legal, pp. 5-10
Population and family planning policies
(1993). Population and family planning policies: women-centred perspectives. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 1, Population and family planning policies, pp. 4-12
Contraceptive safety and effectiveness
This essay introduces a series of articles on contraceptive safety and effectiveness and provides an overview discussion of the topic. While everyone agrees that contraceptives should be safe the definition of safety differs when considered from different points of view. Different concepts of safety may occur between policy-makers and scientists during the research phase as evidenced by the recent controversy about research into contraceptive vac…
The meaning of motherhood, fatherhood and fertility
The quinacrine controversy one year on
Following the report of a study of the use of quinacrine as a non-surgical method of sterilisation in more than 31,000 women in Vietnam, Reproductive Health Matters published a critical analysis of the Vietnamese data. Since then, a consensus has been reached that toxicological testing of quinacrine in animals should be done before there are any further clinical trials or any other provision of the method to women. Yet a number ofpeople are conti…
Antibody Politic
Pregnancy birth control, STDs and Aids
(1995). Pregnancy birth control, STDs and AIDS: Promoting safer sex. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 3, Promoting safer sex, pp. 7-11
The quinacrine controversy continues
Quinacrine is a non-surgical method of female sterilisation. It has not been approved by the drug regulatory authority in any country as studies have not yet shown whether it is safe or effective. A small number of individual doctors are continuing to provide this method to poor women in developing countries, in spite of international advice by the WHO, IPPF and other medical and scientific experts in the field. This report includes: 1) a summary…
Fundamentalism, women's empowerment and reproductive rights
(1996). Fundamentalism, women's empowerment and reproductive rights. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 4, Fundamentalism and reproductive rights, pp. 7-10
Men
Abortion
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development acknowledged that unsafe abortion is a major public health problem and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women agreed that something must be done about this problem. Since those world conferences the abortion law of the island of Guernsey was liberalized abortion information can now be disseminated legally in Ireland Portugal just missed liberalizing its abortion law and tentative …
The international women's health movement
(1997). The international women's health movement. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 5, The international women's health movement, pp. 6-8
Why reproductive health and rights
(1997). Why reproductive health and rights: Because I am a woman. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 5, The international women's health movement, pp. 16-20
Sex, sexuality and sexual health
This article discusses the difference between sex and sexuality and sexual health on the basis of reproductive health and rights. Sex and sexuality are not the same as sexual health and cannot be reduced to it. This is because sex and sexuality do not fit quite so directly or comfortably into the practicalities of the reproductive health and rights agenda while sexual health does. To further explain sexuality is at the core of human identity and …
Women's health services
Closing remarks
Living without children
(1999). Living without children. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 7, Living without children, pp. 7-12
Access to reproductive health
Microbicides 2000
'Microbicide' is the name for a number of new products currently under research which could become a new class of barrier method for use in the vagina and rectum for protection against HIV, prevention and/or treatment of other sexually transmitted diseases and/or act as a contraceptive. This is a summary report of this scientific conference, at which basic science, clinical trial efficacy and design, and ethical, behavioural and public health iss…
Reproductive rights, advocacy and changing the law
HIV/Aids, sexual and reproductive health at Aids 2000, Durban
The 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban was a milestone in many ways, the most important being that it took place in southern Africa and brought together many more people from the African region with others from developing countries internationally than any previous conference. This should be repeated often and soon. For women, however, reproductive and sexual health issues were by and large not visible on the main conference agenda, exc…
Safe sex, women's reproductive rights and the need for a feminist movement in the 21st century
By and for young women and men
(2001). By and for young women and men. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 9, By and for young women and men, pp. 6-10
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