Maternal Health Is Womens Health A Call for Papers for Year 2 of the Maternal Health Task Force–PLOS Collection 英文参考文献.docVIP

Editorial MaternalHealthIsWomen’sHealth:ACallforPapersfor Year2oftheMaternalHealthTaskForce–PLOS Collection SamanthaR.Lattof1,MaryNellWegner2,AnaLanger1,thePLOSMedicine Editors* 1HarvardSchoolofPublicHealth,GlobalHealthandPopulation,Boston,Massachusetts,UnitedStatesofAmerica,2HarvardSchoolofPublicHealth,WomenandHealth Initiative,Boston,Massachusetts,UnitedStatesofAmerica The Maternal Health Task Force KeyIssuesintheHealthofGirls andAdolescents infections (STIs), including HIV. For example, the likelihood of being infected with HIV among women aged 15–24 years and living in sub-Saharan Africa is eighttimesthatofmen[7].Allbut5%of adolescent births occur in developing countries, where complications related to pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death for girls aged 15–19 years [8].Forwomenofallages,HIV/AIDSis anincreasinglyimportantindirectcauseof maternal death, in part because of the increasing number of infections among sexually active women and because the proportion of women living with HIV/ AIDSisincreasing[7]. (MHTF)andthePLOSMedicineEditorsare delighted to announce our continued col- laborationtocreateafreelyavailable,open accesscollectionofoutstandingresearchand Even prior to puberty, a number of childhoodfactorsexistthatmayinfluence girls’ future pregnancies. Poor nutrition, vitaminandmineraldeficiencies,illiteracy, the low social status of women, poverty, and cultural practices such as female circumcision, rationing food to female children,andchildmarriagethreatengirls’ health and increase in pregnancy the risk ofobstructedlabor,fistula,obstetricemer- gencies,andHIVinfections,amongother complications[3–5].Youngerwomenare at greater risk than other women of pregnancy complications because their bodies are still maturing: inadequately developedpelvisesandshortstature,influ- encedbychildhoodnutritionandpoverty, oftencomplicateearlychildbirth[6]. commentary MHTF–PLOS on maternal health, the Collection on Maternal Health,withacallforpaperson