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Acknowledgement
TK Sundari Ravindran is RHM’s co-founder and first and only co-editor (at least so far!). She has been an inspiration to me for as long as I have been editing this journal. Given that this issue is about the same subjects we started off with together, I want to acknowledge her here for teaching me much of what I understand about social justice and political economy today.
Notes
1 London: Penguin, 2012. http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780713996838,00.html
2 The EU and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, currently being “negotiated”, would make governments beholden to corporations, force competitive tendering for all services, including publicly owned and provided services such as health care, and even allow corporations to sue governments for loss of income, e.g. as a result of protective public health policies. See http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta, 2 December 2013. p. 1.
3 European court orders Turkey to pay damages for Cyprus invasion. The Guardian. 14 May 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/may/12/european-court-human-rights-turkey-compensation-cyprus-invasion
5 Presentations by Hania Zlotnik, former Head of the UN Population Division, and by others at the Population Footprints conference, London 2011. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/popfootprints/publications/popfoot_report
6 Defining disaster resilience: a DFID approach paper [Internet]. London: Department for International Development; November 2011. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/186874/defining-disaster-resilience-approach-paper.pdf
7 In my opinion, data collection on sexual and reprodutive health matters covering married women only should be banned, and leaving men out should be banned too.
8 Shah I, Åhman E. Unsafe abortion differentials in 2008 by age and developing country region: high burden among young women. Reproductive Health Matters 2012;20(39):169–73.
9 Ravindran TKS, Mishra US. Unmet need for reproductive health in India. Reproductive Health Matters 2001;9(18):105–13.
11 Prof. Hans Rosling. www.gapminder.org
12 I find it actually very concerning that no one submitted a paper for this journal issue that addressed below replacement fertility and the policy aberrations it is causing among pronatalist-leaning governments, such as Russia and countries of Eastern Europe. This is a serious problem for women, because the first thing demanded of them is to have more babies and the first thing to be taken away, to try and force them to do so, is contraception and legal abortion. The causes and consequences of below replacement fertility needs more study.
13 Johnson G. Based on figures from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. Quoted in: Bailey R. Women who don’t want children. www.rosemarybailey.com/?page_id=248
14 OECD family database – mean age of mothers at first childbirth. http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/SF2.3%20Mean%20age%20of%20mother%20at%20first%20childbirth%20-%20updated%20240212.pdf
15 Average age of woman having first child continues to rise due to 'spending more time in education’. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2201023/Average-age-woman-having-child-continues-rise-spending-time-education.html#ixzz2TwpW5MgZ
16 Beyond Acceptability: Users’ Perspectives on Contraception. London: RHM for WHO; 1997. http://www.rhmjournal.org.uk/publications/beyond-acceptability/BeyondAcceptability.pdf
17 For one of the best manuals on indicators for evaluating and ensuring quality of care in contraceptive services, see: Bertrand JT, Magnani RJ, Rutenberg N. Handbook of Indicators for Family Planning Program Evaluation. The Evaluation Project, University of North Carolina. December 1994. At: www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/publications/pdf/ms-94-01.pdf