International Women’s Day, observed annually on March 8th, celebrates the achievements of women and the promotion of their rights. It is an invaluable opportunity to assess and critically reflect on and challenges that women face in many areas. The UN Sustainable Development Goal on Good Health and Well-Being (SDG3) includes key targets directly related to women, such as access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services and reduction of maternal mortality.
These are essential research topics, given that women are more than half the world’s population; and studies show that women’s well-being is directly linked to their societies overall physical, economic, and political health. Researchers in these areas have published influential and insightful research with Springer Nature and its imprints. So in honor of International Women’s Day 2023, below you will find a hand-selected collection of scholarship published by Springer Nature on reproductive justice and maternal health from across various disciplines and publications. This important research supports advocacy and policymaking in the promotion and protection of women’s rights, and advances the efforts to achieve sustainable development.
Explore our selection of articles and chapters.
Special Issue:
- Special Issue: Black Maternal and Child Health in America (Maternal and Child Health Journal)
Topical Collections:
- Racial, Social and Gender Disparities in Perinatal Health (Journal of Perinatology)
- Interventions and policy approaches to promote equity in breastfeeding (International Journal for Equity in Health)
- Innovations for better health & social justice (BMC Health Services Research)
- Leaving no one behind on the road to Universal Health Coverage: The Kerala story (International Journal for Equity in Health)
- Call for papers - Quality improvement in maternal and reproductive health services (BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth)
- Justice-Involved Women (Health & Justice)
- Potential scale-up interventions in sexual and reproductive health for adolescents in low and middle-income countries (Reproductive Health)
Qualitative Exploration of the Influence of Domestic Violence on Motherhood in the Perinatal Periodfrom Journal of Family Violence | Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproductionfrom Sex Roles | Intersectional inequalities in younger women’s experiences of physical intimate partner violence across communities in Bangladeshfrom International Journal for Equity in Health |
The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and LiteratureFeatured chapter: Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries |
The impact of intrauterine growth restriction and prematurity on nephron endowmentfrom nature reviews nephrology | American Indian/Alaska Native Birth and Maternal Health Outcomes in Louisiana: Investigating Regional Disparitiesfrom Maternal and Child Health Journal | Girl child marriage and its association with maternal healthcare services utilization in sub-Saharan Africafrom BMC Health Services Research |
Recurrent pregnancy lossfrom Nature Reviews Disease Primers | Developing a Public Health Maternal and Child Health Training Program: Lessons Learned from Five Schools of Public Healthfrom Maternal and Child Health Journal | A community edutainment intervention for gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, and maternal and child health in rural Senegal: a process evaluationfrom BMC Public Health | Interventions and policy approaches to promote equity in breastfeedingfrom International Journal for Equity in Health |
Female and Male Fertility PreservationFeatured chapter: Ethical Considerations of Fertility Preservation |
Female and Male ContraceptionFeatured chapter: |
Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive HealthFeatured chapter: |
Contraception across transgenderfrom IJIR: Your Sexual Medicine Journal | “Since I’m a little bit more mature”: contraception and the arc of time for women in midlifefrom Women's Midlife Health | Perinatal outcomes of human singletons conceived naturally versus assisted reproductive technologies: analysis of the effect of stimulated IVF, modified natural IVF, and frozen embryo transferfrom Middle East Fertility Society Journal |
Reproductive Aging Among Sexual Minority Womenfrom Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports | A global cautionary tale: discrimination and violence against trans women worsen despite investments in public resources and improvements in health insurance access and utilization of health carefrom International Journal for Equity in Health | Nephrology and women’s health post-Roe v. Wade: we must do betterfrom Nature Reviews Nephrology |
Maternal oral health framework: integration of oral health into perinatal carefrom Journal of Public Health Policy | Health insurance coverage and timely antenatal care attendance in sub-Saharan Africafrom BMC Health Services Research |
Management of depression during the perinatal period: state of the evidencefrom International Journal of Mental Health Systems | Maternal stress, child behavior and the promotive role of older siblingsfrom BMC Public Health | The prevalence of mental ill-health in women during pregnancy and after childbirth during the Covid-19 pandemic: a systematic review and Meta-analysisfrom BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | Black with ‘Baby Blues’: A Systematic Scoping Review of Programs to Address Postpartum Depression in African American Womenfrom Maternal and Child Health Journal |
Cost-effectiveness of screening tools for identifying depression in early pregnancy: a decision tree modelfrom BMC Health Services Research | “Lost trust in the system”: system barriers to publicly available mental health and substance use services for transgender women in San Franciscofrom BMC Health Services Research |
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