"This practical, evidence-based handbook will meet the needs of those working in the field of SRH care and will also help those preparing for the joint EBCOG and ESCRH Certificate and Diploma examination in Sexual and Reproductive Health and is designed to closely follow the examination's curriculum"--
A comprehensive evidence-based resource for ensuring high standards of care in contraception and sexual and reproductive health that follows the curriculum of the joint EBCOG and ESCRH examination in Contraception and Sexual and Reproductive Health. Text focuses on key information, providing advice on how to practice patient-centred care.
The purpose of sexual and reproductive healthcare should be the enhancement of personal relationships and a healthy sex life and not merely counselling and care related to procreation or sexually transmitted infections. Providing practical and evidence-based guidance, this textbook follows the curriculum of the joint EBCOG and ESCRH examination in Contraception and Sexual and Reproductive Health . Coverage is comprehensive, allowing readers to gain an in-depth understanding of each topic. Written by trusted experts in the field, topics covered include contraception, infertility and sexual dysfunction, sexual violence and STIs. The text provides advice and practical tips for how to practice patient-centred counselling and shared decision-making. Improving the relationship between the patient and healthcare-provider leads to increased trust, adherence of advice and more satisfactory treatment for the patient.
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A comprehensive evidence-based resource for ensuring high standards of care in contraception and sexual and reproductive health.
Section I. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Public Health
Aspects and Prevention in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare:
1. Sexual and
reproductive health and rights;
2. European laws on sexual and reproductive
health and the different policies regarding access to sexual and reproductive
healthcare;
3. The main threats to sexual and reproductive health and the
principal components of good sexual and reproductive healthcare;
4. The
principles and roles of sexuality education;
5. Sexual reproductive health:
public health aspects ;
6. General principles of preventive medicine in
sexual and reproductive healthcare;
7. Screening in sexual and reproductive
healthcare;
8. Reproductive life plan and preconception care, including
vaccination; Section II. Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare:
9. The
reproductive endocrinology of contraception;
10. Evidence-based clinical
practice in contraceptive counselling and care;
11. Combined hormonal
contraception;
12. Progestogen-only contraception;
13. Nonhormonal
contraception;
14. Permanent methods of contraception in women;
15. Emergency
contraception;
16. Management of issues associated with female
contraceptives: bleeding;
17. Management of issues associated with female
contraceptives: mood;
18. Management of issues associated with female
contraceptives: sexuality;
19. Management of issues associated with female
contraceptives: drugdrug interactions;
20. Contraception in women with
cancer;
21. Contraception in women with benign breast disease and benign
uterine and ovarian conditions;
22. Contraception in women with
cardiovascular conditions;
23. Contraception in women with metabolic
conditions;
24. Contraceptive choices for women with HIV infection;
25.
Contraception in women with neurological conditions;
26. Contraception in
Women with psychiatric conditions;
27. Contraception in disabled women;
28.
Contraception in women with immunosuppressive diseases;
29. Contraception in
women with lupus autoimmune diseases;
30. Contraception in women with chronic
kidney disease;
31. Contraception in women with diabetes;
32. Contraception
in women with thyroid dysfunction;
33. Contraception in women with polycystic
ovary syndrome;
34. Contraception in women with special needs: life-course
approach;
35. Male contraception;
36. Termination of pregnancy: overview;
37.
Termination of pregnancy: medical methods;
38. Termination of pregnancy:
surgical methods;
39. Termination of pregnancy at different gestational
phases;
40. Post-abortion care;
41. Infertility;
42. Hormones and female
sexuality;
43. Vulvovaginitis;
44. Sexually transmitted genital infections:
HPV, tricho, herpes, chlamydia;
45. Sexually transmitted genital infections:
syphilis, gonorrhoea, hepatitis, HIV; Section III. Sexual Healthcare:
46.
Sexual counselling: general principles;
47. Disorders of desire, arousal and
orgasm in the female;
48. Sexual pain disorders in the female;
49.
Vulvodynia;
50. Disorders of desire, arousal and orgasm in the male;
51.
Life-course approach to sexual health;
52. Sexual violence;
53. Sexual and
reproductive healthcare for LGBTI*; Section IV. Sexual and Reproductive
Health Indicators and Policies:
54. Indicators of sexual and reproductive
health and their relevance to policy development;
55. Health systems for
sexual and reproductive health;
56. Prevention and health promotion in sexual
and reproductive health; Index.
Johannes Bitzer is Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He is also Honorary Fellow of the UK Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health, and the Director of the Diploma in Sexual Medicine at University Basel Advanced Studies Center. He is a former President of the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESCRH) and past Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. He is a former President of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology and Member of the Core Group of the European Collaboration on Science and Technology (COST) -European Sexual Medicine Network. Tahir A. Mahmood is Consultant Gynaecologist Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, and Murrayfield Spire Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an international Consultant to the UNFPA Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. C He is a former President of the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG) and Past Vice-President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). He chairs the Quality Assurance Committee of the EBCOG examination and the EBCOG Standing Committee on Standards of Care and Position Statements.
