Womens Reproductive Health

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Figure 1 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR A RESEARCH
AGENDA ON WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH AND HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA
Womens Reproductive Health
Household Food Security

• Production
• Distribution
• Storage/preservation
• Preparation
• Allocation within HH
• Consumption
• Income/Food Prices
• Etc.

• Fertility Family Planning
• Sexuality STI/HIV/AIDS
• MCH
• Infertility
• Menopause
• Etc.

Quality of Life

• Poverty
• Rural-urban migration
• Wars and political instability
• Household demographic profile
• General health, nutritional and
• environmental conditions
• Womens socio-economic status
• Political commitment/governance
• Formal and informal education
• RH and HFS technologies
• HIV/AIDS
• Etc.

• Availability of medical
• facility/personnel
• Political commitment to health
• Access to medical facilities
• Attitude towards RH services
• Health care decision
• making patterns
• Individual socio-economic
• and demographic status
• Etc.

• Climatic conditions
• Soil structure/texture
• Feeder roads
• Political commitment to
• agricultural development
• Individual socio-economic
• and health status
• Etc.