Reproductive Health Psychology

This volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date theoretical and empirical background to the psychology of reproductive health. * Provides a life span perspective of the psychology of reproductive health and its disorders, from menarche to menopause and reproductive health in older age * Focuses on issues of the individual's reproductive health experience, including reproduction, pregnancy, maternity, and birth, as well as conditions such as PMDD, dysmenorrhea, and events including pregnancy failure, and abortion * Acknowledges the wider social context with discussions of poverty, inequality, educational and economic status, age, and urban versus rural access * Addresses life style related factors, human rights to choice, information and access, fertility control and reproductive health regulation and health care services * Illustrates topics with empirical data supported with tables and figures