Moving Forward on Reproductive Health

doi:10.1056/NEJMp0806807

ELECTION 2008 — OPINION AND ANALYSIS

Volume 359:1869-1871		October 30, 2008		Number 18

Moving Forward on Reproductive Health

Allan Rosenfield, M.D., R. Alta Charo, J.D., and Wendy Chavkin, M.D., M.P.H.

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Reproductive health policy has been mired in debates over abortionand sexuality, leaving unresolved a cluster of reproductivehealth problems. For a country of such wealth and technicalprowess, the United States has long fared poorly in this keypublic health domain. The litany of grave public health problemsis as familiar as it is long: elevated rates of pregnancy-associateddeaths, infant deaths, low-birth-weight newborns and pretermbirths, adolescent pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections,and unintended pregnancies.¹ Some of these rates have actuallyincreased in recent years, and all are far higher than thosein other developed countries. Moreover, these problems . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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The late Dr. Allan Rosenfield was dean emeritus and professor of population and family health at the Mailman School of Public Health and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons — both at Columbia University, New York. Ms. Charo is a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Chavkin is a professor of clinical population and family health at the Mailman School of Public Health and a professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons — both at Columbia University, New York.