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International Publications 1993–2008
Reproductive Health Matters (RHM) edits and produces publications with in-depth coverage of sexual and reproductive health and rights issues for a multi-disciplinary, international audience. These include:
- a twice yearly, peer reviewed, international journal in English, with abstracts in English, French and Spanish (ISSN 0968–8080),
- Chinese edition of the RHM journal (produced by the National Research Institute for Family Planning in Beijing),
- Arabic edition of the RHM journal (produced by the New Woman Foundation in Cairo)
- Spanish edition of the RHM journal (produced by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima).
- Hindi edition of the RHM journal in 2006 (produced by CREA in New Delhi).
- Portuguese edition of the RHM journal in 2006 (produced by ABRASCO Gender Group, São Paulo).
- French edition of the RHM journal starting in 2007 (produced by the Cellule de Recherche en Santé de la Reproduction du Burkina Faso, Bobo Dioulasso).
- Russian edition of the RHM journal starting in 2008 (produced by the Society for Women's Health Problems, Moscow)
Each journal issue/supplement/book has a main theme, covering reproductive health laws, policies and services, safe motherhood, pregnancy and delivery, contraception, abortion, HIV/AIDS, sexual health, reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted diseases, infertility, reproductive tract cancers, health system reforms and population policies, by authors from around the world.
RHM 's journal and books are published in print and online. RHM has also begun to produce selections of articles on specific themes, including in CD-Rom format.
The RHM journal is distributed in print and published online by Elsevier Limited. RHM is part of Reproductive and Women's Health Resources Online, a cluster of Elsevier journals and books focusing on women’s health, obstetrics/gynaecology and sexual and reproductive health issues. Elsevier's website includes an RHM homepage at <www.rhm-elsevier.com> where the tables of contents and abstracts in three languages can be accessed free of charge, and full-text articles can be accessed by paid and supported (free) subscribers, RHM's board members. Individual articles can also be purchased for a fee. For those whose institutions subscribe to ScienceDirect, tables of contents, abstracts and full-text articles can be accessed at: <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09688080>.
There is a cumulative index covering authors, subjects (keywords) and country/region on this website, which will be updated twice yearly.
RHM is a registered charity No. 1040450 and a Limited Company Registered No. 2959883 (England).
Aims and Scope
- to promote laws, policies, research and services that meet women’s reproductive health needs and support women’s right to decide whether, when and how to have children
- to examine experiences, values, information and issues from the point of view of the women whose lives are affected
- to motivate improvements in policy, services and practice to women's benefit
- to inspire new thinking and action in the field.
Authors and Audience
- women’s health and rights advocates
- health service providers, including obstetrician–gynaecologists and other clinicians, midwives, family planning providers and associations, and counsellors
- health policymakers, ministries and health departments, including heads of maternal and child health, family planning, STIs/HIV/AIDS,
- national and international professional assocatiions
- international agencies and donors
- NGOs and other civil society organisations focusing on health, population, development and human rights
- social science and biomedical researchers and scientists
- academics and their students in law, medicine, demography and public health
- university and post-graduate education and training courses for sexual and reproductive health professionals
- university libraries and resource centres
- newsletters, journals and magazines, journalists and
- those in related fields with an interest in women’s health.
Journal Contents
Each issue of the journal has one main theme and includes:
- editorial
- features on the main theme
- topical papers on other subjects
- research methodology
- commentary
- letters to the editor
- roundtable of views on controversial topics
- issues in current research, policy and service delivery
- round-up of information on law and policy, service delivery, research, condoms and HIV/AIDS, summarised from the published literature
- bookshelf
- round-up of new publications.
The full text of articles in the journal is available to institutional and personal subscribers, both paid and free (supported) on ScienceDirect, starting with Vol 1 No 1 1993. Please contact your library to request access. Vol 1 Nos 1 & 2 are also available in full on this website.
The journal is indexed/abstracted in:
- Contemporary Women’s Issues
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- Current Awareness in Biomedicine
- Current Contents (ISI)
- Excerpta Medica (EMBASE)
- Family and Society Studies Worldwide
- Feminist Periodicals
- Health Promotion Information
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- List of Free Materials in Reproductive Health
- Medline
- Ohio Database of Women’s Studies
- Popline
- Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS)
- PubMed
- Research Alert
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Social Science Research Network
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Sociofile
- Sociological Abstracts
- SOPODA
- Studies on Women Abstracts.
RHM Staff
Pathika Martin Paula Hajnal-Konyi Ellie Bard Promotion / Administration Manager Finance Officer Editorial Consultant
Marge Berer
Editor / Project Manager
RHM Editorial Advisory Board
Regina Maria Barbosa
Senior Researcher, Population Studies Center, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Toni Belfield
Associate, RCOG Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care; editorial board, Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group, UK
Mabel Bianco
President, Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Coordinator, International Women's AIDS Caucus.IAS
Eunice Brookman-Amissah
Vice President for Africa, Ipas Africa, Kenya
Rebecca Cook
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada
Jane Cottingham
Technical Officer for Gender and Reproductive Rights, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Thérèse Delvaux
STD/HIV Research and Intervention Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Mahmoud F Fathalla
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt; past president, International Federation of Gynaecology & Obstetrics
Aníbal Faúndes
President, CEMICAMP, Brazil
Claudia García Moreno
Coordinator, Gender and Coordinator, Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Violence against Women, Department of Gender and Women's Health, WHO, Switzerland
Asha George
Research Consultant, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore India; DPhil Candidate, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, UK
Adrienne Germain
President, International Women's Health Coalition, USA
Anissa Helie
Historian, Gender Studies Department, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Annika Johansson
Senior Researcher, Karolinska Institute, Division of International Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Sweden
Sandra Kabir
Executive Director, BRAC UK, UK
Afamia Kaddour
Researcher, Department of Health Education and Behaviour, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Julia Kim
Rural AIDS and Development Action Research Programme School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Frances Kissling
Former President, Catholics for a Free Choice, USA
Sophie LeCoeur
Senior Researcher, Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, France
Nana Oye Lithur
Chairperson, Reproductive Health Committee, African Women Lawyers Association, Ghana
Bene Madunagu
Coordinator, DAWN ; Chairperson, Executive Board, Girls Power Initiative, Nigeria
Philippe Msellati
Epidemiologist, Antenne, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Burkina Faso
Judy Norsigian
Our Bodies Ourselves, USA
Wanda Nowicka
Director, Federation for Women and Family Planning, and Coordinator, Astra Network, Warsaw, Poland
Frederick Nunes
Consultant
Nandini Oomman
Director and Senior Program Associate, HIV/AIDS Monitor, Center for Global Development, USA
Mala Ramanathan
Faculty, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India
Silvina Ramos
Director and Senior Researcher, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES); Advisor, National Commission on Health Research, Ministry of Health, Argentina
Susanna Rance
Sociologist; Faculty/Researcher, CIDES-UMSA Postgraduate Centre for Development Sciences; activist and consultant on gender, sexualities, health and rights, Bolivia
TK Sundari Ravindran
Independent researcher on gender, women's health and rights; secretary, Rural Women's Social Education Centre, India
Juliet Richters
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
Iqbal Shah
Scientist, Coordinator, Preventing Unsafe Abortion, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Michael Lim Tan
Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Director, International Health Policy Programme, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Paul Van Look
Director, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Switzerland
RHM Board of Trustees/Directors
Berit Austveg (Chairwoman)
Norwegian Board of Health (seconded to NORAD), Norway
Pascale Allotey
Professor of Race and Diversity, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, UK
Angela Davies
Director, Partridge Consultancy (UK) Ltd
Jocelyn DeJong
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK
Simone Diniz
Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade e Saude; Department of Maternal and Infant Health, Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Amal Abd El-Hadi
Consultant, New Woman Foundation, Egypt
Geetanjali Misra
Director, CREA, New Delhi, India
Rosalind P Petchesky
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Political Science Department, Hunter College/Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
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