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.
