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Seminar on Innovative Approaches to the Assessment of Reproductive Health

Manila, Philippines, September 24-27, 1996
Co-sponsored by the IUSSP Committee on Reproductive Health and the university of the Philippines Population Institute

Programme

Opening

Aurora E. Perez, Director of the Population Institute of the university of the Philippines
Amaryllis T. Torres, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, university of the Philippines

Carla Makhlouf-Obermeyer and Axel Mundigo
IUSSP Reproductive Health Committee Co-Chairs
Oona Campbell, Vincent Fauveau, Kate Stewart, Seminar Scientific Coordinators

Session 1 : Maternal Mortality

Measuring Maternal Mortality: data sources for direct and indirect approaches
Oona M. R. Campbell and Wendy J. Graham

Strategies for Model-Based Estimates of Maternal Mortality
Cynthia Stanton, Kenneth Hill, Carla AbouZahr and Tessa Wardlaw

Indirect Estimation of Maternal Mortality Ratios for 1990-1995 at the National, Regional, Provincial and City Levels in Philippines
Josephina V. Cabigon

Reexamining the Witnesses of Maternal Death in Indonesia: was it simply because her time had come?
Meiwita B. Iskandar and Terence H. Hull

An Active Surveillance System in Maternal Mortality: the Central American experience
Edgar Kestler

The Risk of Childbearing: a Philippines study of pregnancy complications and maternal mortality
John A. Ballweg and Imelda Pagtolun-an

An Alternative for the Maternal Mortality Ratio: the coverage of obstetric interventions need
Vincent De Brouwere, Ahmed Laabid and Wim Van Lerberghe

A Community Based Investigation of Avoidable Factors for Maternal Mortality in Zimbabwe
S. Fareus, M.T. Mbizvo, G. Lindmark and L. Nyström
Presenter: Micah Madzima

Session 2 : Obstetric and Gynaecologic Morbidity

Frequency and Characteristics of Obstetric Patients who Need Treatment in Intensive Care units
Marie-Hélène Bouvier-Colle

The 'Near-Misses': are life-threatening complications practical indicators for safe motherhood programmes?
V. Filippi, C. Ronsmans, W.J. Graham, T. Gandaho and E. Alihonou

Reproductive Morbidity: a conceptual framework
Judith A. Fortney

Are RTIs a PUBLIC Health Problem ?
Rosario Cárdenas

Measuring Reproductive Morbidity through a Sample Survey in Peru
Anrudh K. Jain, Karen Stein, Mary Arends-Kuenning and Maria Rosa Garate

undertaking Community-based Research on the Prevalence of Gyneacological Morbidity: lessons from India
Mike Koenig, Sagri Singh, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy and S. Sridhar

Methodological Lessons from a Study of Post-partum Morbidity in Rural Bangladesh
Elizabeth A. Goodburn and Wendy Graham

Measuring the Reproductive Health Problems of Adolescent Girls
Loretta Brabin

Measurement of Reproductive Morbidity: the usefulness of perceived/reported morbidity on reproductive tract infections
Huda Zurayk and Tamar Kabakian

Validation Study of Responses to the Maternal Morbidity Module of the 1994 Ecuadoran Reproductive Health Survey
Isabella Danel, Rebeca Ponce de Leon and Patricio Lozado

utility of Women's Self-Reported Symptoms of Major Obstetric Complications at Holy Family Hospital, Techiman, Ghana
Esi Amaoful, Nancy L. Sloan, Paul Arthur, Beverly Winikof and Sam Adjei

Studies Validating Women's Reports of Reproductive Ill Health: how useful are they ?
Carine Ronsmans

Clinical/Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of Reproductive Morbidity in Population-Based Studies
Ronald H. Gray and Maria J. Wawer

Session 3 : Infertility

Multivariate Approach to Analyse Primary and Secondary Infertility: applications from Cameroon
Amadou Noumbissi

Infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case of Sudan
Arvind Pandey and Samual C. J. Otor

Some Challenges in Estimating the Burden of Infertility for the Incorporation into a Reproductive Health Approach: an example from the Gambia
Johanne Sundby, Reuben Mboge and Sheriff Sonko

Infertility and its Association with Sexual Behaviour, STD and HIV Infection in Tanzania
Ties Boerma, Marc urassa and Raphael Isingo