Women's Reproductive Health and Challenges Ahead: A Scoping Review
Women's health is a key indicator of development. Among various factors, reproductive health poses significant challenges to women's well-being. Identifying these issues is the crucial first step in the policymaking process. This study aims to identify the challenges in women's reprod...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Taṣvīr-i salāmat |
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| Online Access: | https://doh.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/doh-16-201.pdf |
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| Summary: | Women's health is a key indicator of development. Among various factors, reproductive health poses significant challenges to women's well-being. Identifying these issues is the crucial first step in the policymaking process. This study aims to identify the challenges in women's reproductive health. The research was conducted using the scoping review method. All studies related to women's reproductive health and its challenges were searched in databases such as "SID," "Magiran," "Web of Science," "Scopus," "PubMed," and the "Google Scholar" search engine using appropriate keywords. Ultimately, 25 studies were selected and analyzed using MAXQDA software and the framework analysis method. In this review, 15 significant challenges in the field of women's reproductive health were identified and categorized into structural, social, individual, and legal dimensions. The most critical challenges included inadequate understanding of needs, insufficient household income and awareness, lack of proper inter-sectoral coordination for intervention implementation, a lack of coherence and focus in planning and policies related to reproductive health, ignoring the impact of stakeholders and actors in policymaking and planning, inefficiency in providing reproductive health services, shortage of necessary financial resources, inadequate insurance coverage, and the absence of a strategic plan or roadmap aligned with the goals in the field of reproductive health. A road map for improving women's reproductive health and its continuous evaluation to ensure optimal outcomes, identifying the real needs of society, especially vulnerable groups, strengthening the system of providing reproductive health services, and increasing timely access to these services can help reduce the challenges and allow more women to benefit from reproductive health promotion services. |
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| ISSN: | 2008-9058 2423-6640 |