Dr Shireen Jejeebhoy is Scientist in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization, Geneva
Dr Michael Koenig is Associte Professor in the Department of Population Family Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Dr Christopher Elias is President of the Program for Appropriate Technology, Seattle
List of contributors; Foreword Paul F. A. van Look; Acknowledgements; 1.
Introduction and overview Shireen Jejeebhoy, Michael Koenig and Christopher
Elias; 2. Defining reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological
morbidities Janneke van de Wijgert and Christopher Elias; 3. The social
context of gynaecological morbidity: correlates, consequences and health
seeking behaviour Shireen Jejeebhoy and Michael Koenig; 4. Reproductive
health: men's roles and men's rights Sarah Hawkes and Graham Hart; 5. Study
design for the measurement of gynaecological morbidity Huda Zurayk; 6.
Alternatives to community-based study designs for research on women's
gynaecological morbidity Michael Koenig and Mary Shepherd; 7. Community
interaction in studies of gynaecological morbidity: experiences in Egypt,
India and Uganda Shireen Jejeebhoy, Michael Koenig and Christopher Elias:
Section 1. Egypt: the Giza reproductive morbidity study Hind Khattab;
Section 2. India: the Gadchiroli study of gynaecological diseases Rani Bang
and Abhay Bang; Section 3. Uganda: the Rakai project David Serwadda and
Maria Wawer; 8. Definitions of clinically diagnosed gynaecological
morbidity resulting from reproductive tract infection Christopher Elias,
Nicola Low and Sarah Hawkes; 9. Laboratory tests for the detection of
reproductive tract infections Jane Kuypers and World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Western Pacific; 10. Laboratory methods for the
diagnosis of reproductive tract infections and selected conditions in
population-based studies Mary Meehan, Maria Wawer, David Serwadda, Ronald
Gray and Thomas Quinn; 11. The value of the imperfect: the contribution of
interview surveys to the study of gynaecological ill health John Cleland
and Siobán Harlow; 12. Qualitative methods in gynaecological morbidity
research Nandini Oomman and Joel Gittelsohn; 13. Integrating qualitative
and quantitative methods in research on reproductive health Pertti Pelto
and John Cleland; 14. Interpreting results from different sources of data
Tom Marshall, Véronique Filippi, André Meheus and Aysen Bulut; 15. Turning
research into action Ruth Dixon-Mueller; Appendix; Index.
