The Year of the Woman and Beyond in World Medical & Health Policy

• Published date: 01 December 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.212
• Author: Bonnie Stabile,Arnauld Nicogossian
• Date: 01 December 2016

Editorial

The Year of the Woman and Beyond in World Medical &

Health Policy

Bonnie Stabile and Arnauld Nicogossian

When the Editors of World Medical & Health Policy (WMHP) released a Call

for Papers on Women’s Health in Global Perspective last year, it was our intent to

bring light to global issues of women’s health in a single special issue on the topic

in 2016. But the large number and high quality of abstracts that we received for

presentation at the March 2016 workshop, and the strong set of papers

subsequently submitted to WMHP, ensured our focus on issues of global

women’s health far beyond the conf‌ines of one special issue, reaching into the

year ahead and beyond.

The f‌irst papers presented at the workshop to be published in WMHP

appeared in the September 2016 issue, including a “Qualitative Study of

Reproductive and Maternal Health Services Access in Northern Togo” (Arnold et

al.), an “Evaluation of a Culturally Tailored HIV Risk Reduction Intervention

among Latina Immigrant Farmworkers” (Sanchez et al.), and an article on

“Confronting Cultural Silencing of Women: Untold Stories of Abuse and HIV

Risk in Young Women in Africa and the US” (Maposa et al.). A fourth article in

WMHP 8 3 also dealt with “Gender as a Cross-Cutting Issue in Food Security:

The NuME Project and Quality Protein Maize in Ethiopia” (O’Brien et al.), though

it had originated in a presentation at our Summit on Global Food Security and

Health in fall 2015.

The current issue of WMHP highlights work on “A Qualitative Study

Exploring How Family Planning Beliefs and Attitudes Contribute to Family

Planning Behavior in Rural, Southeastern Kenya” by Michele Coleman and

Araceli Alonso; “A Systematic Review of Reproductive Coercion in International

Settings,” by Karen Trister Grace and Christina Fleming; “Health-Related Quality

of Life Associated With Physical Activity: New Estimates by Gender and Race

and Ethnicity,” by Iris Buder, Cathleen Zick, PhD and Norman Waitzman;

“Def‌ining Agency and Vulnerability: PEPFAR and the Role of Women in HIV/AIDS

Prevention” by Sara R. Jord an and Jaimie Edwards; and “ Work–Family Conf‌lict,

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