Self care interventions could advance sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings

Carmen H Logie; Kaveh Khoshnood; Moses Okumu; Sabina Faiz Rashid; Fidan Senova; Hamza Meghari; Claire Uwase Kipenda

doi:10.1136/bmj.l1083

Self care interventions could advance sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings

BMJ. 2019 Apr 1:365:l1083. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l1083.

Authors

Carmen H Logie^{1

2}, Kaveh Khoshnood³, Moses Okumu¹, Sabina Faiz Rashid⁴, Fidan Senova⁵, Hamza Meghari⁶, Claire Uwase Kipenda⁷

Affiliations

¹ Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Balcalı Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
⁶ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
⁷ Interaid Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.

Abstract

Forcibly displaced people often lack access to adequate sexual and reproductive health services. Carmen Logie and colleagues examine the role of self care interventions in filling the gap

MeSH terms

Altruism*
Delivery of Health Care / methods
Humans
Refugees
Reproductive Health Services*
Reproductive Health*
Self Care*
Sexual Health*
Social Marginalization
Vulnerable Populations