Comfortably, Safely, and Without Shame: Defining Menstrual Hygiene Management as a Public Health Issue
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- PMCID: PMC4463372
- DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302525
Comfortably, Safely, and Without Shame: Defining Menstrual Hygiene Management as a Public Health Issue
Abstract
In recent years, the menstrual hygiene management challenges facing schoolgirls in low-income-country contexts have gained global attention. We applied Gusfield's sociological analysis of the culture of public problems to better understand how this relatively newly recognized public health challenge rose to the level of global public health awareness and action. We similarly applied the conceptualization by Dorfman et al. of the role of public health messaging in changing corporate practice to explore the conceptual frames and the news frames that are being used to shape the perceptions of menstrual hygiene management as an issue of social justice within the context of public health. Important lessons were revealed for getting other public health problems onto the global-, national-, and local-level agendas.
Comment in
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All of women's health needs are worthy of attention.Lancet. 2019 May 25;393(10186):2119. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30957-2. Lancet. 2019. PMID: 31226041 No abstract available.
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