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Book SynopsisObstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring quality care to women in locations where facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and medical staff are few. This reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.
Trade ReviewUnder Nawal Nour’s guidance and gentle tutelage, this book lays out current knowledge about the ranking threats—from obstetric fistula and genital cutting to obstructed labor and stillbirths, cervical cancer, HIV, and malaria in pregnancy—to the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of women. Nor are gender-based violence and access to contraception scanted, as so often in medical texts.
Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide will prove indispensable to students, trainees, and clinicians seeking to span such divides in order to improve and save lives. It’s a go-to reference for all those who care about the role of gender equity in the broader struggle for global health equity. And that should mean all of us. -- Paul E. Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and cofounder of Partners In Health
Dr. Nour has gathered the foremost experts in obstetrics and gynecology to address the most devastating health issues faced by women in low-resource settings. Practical and easy to read, this book is essential for health providers working in low-resource regions of the world, and indispensable for individuals committed to improving the health and well-being of women everywhere. Not only meant to
improve women’s lives, this publication will no doubt
save women’s lives. -- Christy Turlington Burns, global maternal health advocate and founder of Every Mother Counts
Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide is the first book of its kind to describe a broad range of applications to women’s health worldwide. As a resource for not only physicians, but also non-physician women’s health providers, this volume will have a broad appeal. Of importance is the inclusion of information regarding the need to learn cultural sensitivity and an appreciation of the need to highlight social determinants of maternal mortality and morbidity, including gender-based violence. -- Douglas W. Laube, past president, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
