Sentences with phrase «reproductive years of a woman»

This means that the affected genes will not function correctly later in life, which may cause PCOS during the reproductive years of a woman's life.

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But she is representative of the 98 % of women (including Catholic women) who use, will use, or have used contraception during their reproductive years.

The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).

Infertility is a disease or condition of the reproductive system often diagnosed after a couple has had one year of unprotected, well - timed intercourse, or if the woman has suffered from multiple miscarriages and the woman is under 35 years of age.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

Approximately 35 % of Canadians in low - income households and 14 % in middle - income households experience some form of food insecurity.1 Since poor and malnourished women find it difficult to achieve adequate nutrition, their health is compromised during their reproductive years.

This trial will include women of reproductive age (15 — 49 years) who are pregnant at the time of recruitment, and their respective children from the pregnancies aged less than 6 months in Koibatek sub-county in Baringo county.

The state Assembly is poised to take up several of the individual components of the Women's Equality Agenda as separate bills, ending a two - year impasse caused by a controversial reproductive rights plank.

The study compares the prevalence of ART usage across 35 European countries since 2010, which is the number of ART cycles, per million women of reproductive age (15 - 44 years).

After 40 years of debate, evolutionary biologists have used 10,000 twins and siblings in an attempt to discover whether it arose to give women a reproductive boost, or simply as a by - product of evolution of the male orgasm.

Throughout women's reproductive years, their ovaries regularly flood their bodies with tidal surges of estrogen that can fuel the growth of reproductive tissues, such as the breast and uterus.

A total of 647 women aged 48 - 55 years old and living in central Finland partook in the study, which looked into the reproductive health of middle - aged women.

Published in the Jan. 27 issue of Fertility & Sterility, the study found that about 50 % of reproductive - age women had never discussed their reproductive health with a medical provider and about 30 % visited their reproductive health provider less than once a year or never.

School of Public Health researcher Akilew Adane said this and other maternal health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.»

It is the first study to be published from a five - year federal grant to study the impacts of the expansion of Medicaid in Oregon on the health of women of reproductive age and their children up to age 2.

A revised Medicaid sterilization policy that removes logistical barriers, including a mandatory 30 - day waiting period, could potentially honor women's reproductive decisions, reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and save $ 215 million in public health costs each year, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Estrogen plays a role in crafting the body of females and helps to support fertility during what are known as a woman's reproductive years.

Menopause, like puberty, is a reproductive rite of passage, and marks for women the end of their fertility and child - bearing years.

«By improving awareness of depression in the reproductive years, we may be able to better optimize care before a woman gets pregnant.

Premenstrual Syndrome, or PMS, affects about 80 percent of women during their reproductive years.

The first menstrual cycle, called the menarche, represents the beginning of the reproductive years, and continues until the beginning of menopause, around the age of 51 for most women.

As it happens, both young men and women experience a growth spurt in adolescence that is second only to the rapid growth that occurs in the first year of life.2 With the onset of puberty come increases in height, weight and bone mass; cognitive changes; and reproductive maturation.3 Adolescent boys gain more in bone size and mass than adolescent girls.3 To support this intensive and multifaceted period of growth, the total nutrient needs of adolescents are higher than at any other life stage.

Just consider the repeated contact of these products with the skin and the vaginal tissue on a monthly basis over a woman's reproductive years.

She was sharing years of dedicated research in the spheres of digestion, hormone health, weight management, mental health, women's reproductive health, and exercise science.

All subjects were between 40 and 50 years old (excluding women of reproductive age), and between BMIs of 18 and 25.

Changes in levels of the hormone estrogen throughout a woman's menstrual cycle and reproductive life (during the years a woman can have a baby) probably play a role.

At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to «protect the planet».

Based on this prevalence for the overall U.S. population of women of reproductive age and the number of U.S. births each year, it is estimated that more than 300,000 newborns each year may have increased risk of learning disabilities associated with in utero exposure to methylmercury.

Currently in my third year of practice, I'm constantly considering the roles of reproductive rights, women, and healthcare in the States and abroad.

Repeat use of ECs was infrequent, a finding similar to that in a British study, in which only 4 % of women used ECs 3 or more times in a year.22 Improving access to reproductive choices for women in rural and remote communities was a key reason for the BC initiative, and our findings suggest that EC prescriptions increased substantially in those areas.

The barrage of bills that attack women and reproductive health care has been seemingly endless over the last three years — and, to what end?

This year, the Reproductive Health Technologies Project celebrates 20 years of success in helping to build the political will necessary to drive innovation in reproductive health technologies so every woman has more choices when it comes to controlling her fertility.

Her previous work experience includes 10 years with a family planning clinic in San Joaquin County, California, where she developed the agency's health education department, served as Director of Health Education and Community Services, and helped facilitate a strategic shift from providing primarily women's reproductive health services to offering teen and male - friendly clinical services.

First, a short history: About a decade ago, Planned Parenthood was part of a program in Texas that helped thousands of women a year get reproductive health care.

The rider took effect beginning with the 2006 funding cycle, and the consequences were immediate: That year alone, more than 41,000 fewer women were provided with reproductive health care funded by three main pots of federal money — Title V (the Maternal & Child Health Block Grant), Title XX (the Social Services Block Grant), and Title X; together, the three provide services for women not eligible for Medicaid.

Your gift provides confidential and essential health care and counseling services to the thousands of patients who visit us each year; it supports our fearless advocacy to protect reproductive rights and access; and it equips women, men, and young people with honest, fact - based sexuality education.

After years of inadequate funding, President Obama's increase in international family planning was a critical step forward in demonstrating our nation's renewed commitment to ensuring that women worldwide have access to safe and effective reproductive health care.

Since 2005, those providers have had access to between roughly $ 35 million and $ 40 million a year to provide services to these women — who are but a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of women who actually need services in Texas; with Texas» dubious claim to fame as the state with the highest percentage of uninsured people (about 26 % in 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation), the number of Texas women in need of reproductive health care is roughly 1.5 million, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Planned Parenthood's breast health initiative will also expand the breast health education provided through its promotores community health worker program, which reaches thousands of Latinas every year in 16 communities, educating women and their families about reproductive health issues, connecting them to Planned Parenthood health centers for health care services, and helping them navigate the complicated health care system when follow up care is needed.

The resolution passed by the mayors highlights the importance of women's health and reproductive rights, urges legislators to pursue a positive women's health agenda and strongly supports continued federal funding for Planned Parenthood health centers to provide preventive health services to nearly three million people a year.

Concurrently, conservative lawmakers propose cutting all funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and for Title X, the 41 - year - old source of revenue dedicated to women's reproductive health services — and the one pot of money that Texas lawmakers are powerless to divert to other programs.

For nearly 100 years, Planned Parenthood has been a trusted provider of reproductive health care for women in America.

Even though President Obama lifted the global gag rule more than four years ago, we are still fighting efforts from politicians who want to impose this draconian measure that harms women's health by further restricting the availability of family planning and other reproductive health services around the world.

We provide, affordable, high - quality, confidential reproductive health care to 135,000 women, men and teens each year, regardless of personal circumstances or ability to pay.

This year 850 pieces of legislation relating to women's reproductive health have been introduced nationwide, only a small minority of which support access to health care services.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois provides confidential, affordable, high - quality reproductive health care to thousands of local women, men, and young people every year.

«The outpouring of support has been overwhelming: from women who remember life before Roe, to college students at the beginning of their reproductive years.

Monday May 31 marks the one - year anniversary of the senseless murder of Dr. George Tiller, a physician from Wichita, Kansas, who courageously provided needed reproductive health care to women facing some of the most difficult medical circumstances and complex pregnancies.

Eight years of treating women with eating disorders and anxiety has led me to a particular interest in reproductive mental health, including; infertility, perinatal and postpartum depression and anxiety, parenting adjustment, grief and loss, and issues related to menopause.

For more than 100 years, Planned Parenthood has been one of the nation's leading providers of high - quality, affordable reproductive health care for women, men, and young people, and the nation's largest provider of sex education.