tailieunhanh - ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES

At the same time that the UN was debating cloning, UNESCO was developing a Universal Declaration on Bioethics that attempts to outline some practical expressions of a principle of social responsibility. Justice Michael Kirby, chair of the IBC drafting committee stated that, “Except in relatively few developed countries, the real urgencies of contemporary bioethics include access to healthcare, to adequate nutrition and drinkable water, to the reduction of poverty and illiteracy, the improvement of living conditions and the elimination of unjust marginalization of individuals and groups.”50 Concern that access to any eventual benefi cial scientifi c developments arising from human cloning. | ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES THE POLICY SERIES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH No. 5 Raeda Al-Qutob Salah Mawajdeh Laila Nawar Salama Saidi Firas Raad REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH WORKING GROUP THE POPULATION COUNCIL REGIONAL OFFICE FOR WEST ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES d j-i iii Sb H CT1 I THE POLICY SERIES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH No. 5 Raeda Al-Qutob MD Maternal and Child Health Salah Mawajdeh MD Health Policy and Management Laila Nawar Demography Salama Saidi Demography Firas Raad MA . Public Health REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH WORKING GROUP THE POPULATION COUNCIL REGIONAL OFFICE FOR WEST ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA The Population Council seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane equitable and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council a nonprofit nongovernmental research organization established in 1952 has a multinational Board of Trustees its New York headquarters supports a global network of regional and country offices. The Policy Series in Reproductive Health is produced by the Reproductive Health Working Group housed in the Population Council Regional Office for West Asia and North Africa P 0 Box 115 Dokki Giza Egypt Copyright 1998 Population Council Design Consultant Fadia Badrawi Printing Supervision B akr .