Culture, Politics, Ideology and Reproductive Health in Turkey

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The main objective of the book is to evaluate the impact of educationprograms targeting women’s reproductive health, initiated and sponsoredby Willows International. The book focuses on Turkey, and thefi eldwork was carried out in Istanbul.The analyses of Turkey’s cultural values and their relation to reproductiveattitudes and behavior are a unique contribution based on thefi ndings of a recent nationwide survey while the chapter on the historicalbackground of Turkey’s family planning policies provides a usefulbackground to interpret the fi ndings from the field.The book will serve as a reference and a useful resource for scholars andpolicymakers interested in family planning and reproductive health inTurkey as well as those with a broader and theoretical perspective.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-07-28
Mått148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt314 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
Upplaga22001
FörlagPeter Lang AG
ISBN9783631848906

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Yilmaz Esmer is a professor of political science and international relationsat Bahçesehir University in Istanbul. He received his bachelor’sdegree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Heis an active researcher in a number of international projects includingthe World Values Surveys and the European Values Study. He is the principalinvestigator of the Harvard-Bahçesehir project on reproductivehealth whose fi ndings are analyzed in this book.

Yılmaz Esmer : Introduction — Yılmaz Esmer : Cultural Values, Reproductive Health and Family Planning: The Turkish Case — Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm : Politics of Family Planning in Turkey: Ideological Polarization and Demographic Policies — Iqbal H. Shah : Studying the Impact of a Community-based Family Planning Intervention in Ghana, Pakistan, Tanzania and Turkey: Strengths and Challenges — Duygu Karadon : Factors Influencing Reproductive Health Decision-Making — Sarah Huber-Krum : Ethnic and Regional Diversity in Family Planning Behaviors — Bahar Ayça Okçuoğlu and Sarah Huber-Krum : Associations between Women’s Empowerment, Conservatism and Contraceptive Trends — Ryoko Sato : Effect of Distance to, and Service Availability of, Health Facilities on Family Planning Use among Urban Turkish Women — Julia Katherine Rohr : Contraceptive Choices and Fertility Preferences .