Research Associate, The Water Institute, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA,
Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2019 Nov 20;45:55-59. doi: 10.1363/45e7919.
Increased global attention is being paid to the importance of adolescent and adult women's experiences of menstruation in low- and middle-income countries, and the challenges these experiences present to health, education and gender equality. Although much of the focus has been on menarche as a window of opportunity for early engagement in young women's sexual and reproductive health, minimal attention has been paid to the natural linkages between menstrual health and hygiene and females' management of reproduction over their life course.
人们越来越关注中低收入国家青少年和成年女性的经期体验的重要性,以及这些体验对健康、教育和性别平等带来的挑战。尽管人们的关注焦点主要集中在初潮上,认为这是早期关注年轻女性性健康和生殖健康的一个机会窗口,但很少有人关注经期健康和卫生与女性在其整个生命周期中管理生殖功能之间的自然联系。