"This paper aims to analyze the current literature on the impact of infertility on women's psychological health through systematic methods. A systematic review of the literature for the research of the psychological effects on infertile women was performed. Depression, anxiety and self-esteem were analyzed in the context of women with reproductive problems. Our results indicate that infertile women had higher levels of anxiety and depression, but also a lower self-esteem, compared to women without fertility problems. Almost half of the infertile women, presented in the literature included in this study, reported the presence of psychological problems. The risk factors identified as having important influences on the experience of infertility were age, level of education, employment, duration of infertility, type of infertility, known or unknown cause of infertility, intentionality, perceived social support and treatment for infertility. Of course, these experiences differ from woman to woman, but most of the times, the lifestyle and physical and mental health of infertile women are negatively affected.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: REPRODUCTION AS POLITICS -- CHAPTER 1 Between Ideology, Politics, and Common Sense: The Discourse of Reproductive Rights in Poland -- CHAPTER 2 Reproductive Policies in the Czech and Slovak Republics -- CHAPTER 3 Talking about Women and Wombs: The Discourse of Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the G.D.R. during and after the Wende -- CHAPTER 4 Birth Strike in the New Federal States: Is Sterilization an Act of Resistance? -- PART TWO: GENDER RELATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- CHAPTER 5 Changing Images of Identity in Poland: From the Self-Sacrificing to the Self-Investing Woman? -- CHAPTER 6 Women's Life Trajectories and Class Formation in Hungary -- CHAPTER 7 From Informal Labor to Paid Occupations: Marketization from below in Hungarian Women's Work -- CHAPTER 8 Women's Sexuality and Reproductive Behavior in Post-Ceausescu Romania: A Psychological Approach -- PART THREE: ARENAS OF POLITICAL ACTION: STRUGGLES FOR REPRESENTATION -- CHAPTER 9 New Gender Relations in Poland in the 1990s -- CHAPTER 10 New Parliament, Old Discourse? The Parental Leave Debate in Hungary -- CHAPTER 11 Women's NGOs in Romania -- CHAPTER 12 Women's Problems, Women's Discourses in Bulgaria -- CHAPTER 13 Belgrade's SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence: A Report -- CHAPTER 14 Media Representations of Men and Women in Times of War and Crisis: The Case of Serbia -- CONCLUSION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
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In: Birdi, Kamal and Griffiths, Kerry and Turgoosea, Christine and Alsina, Victòria and Andrei, Daniela and Băban, Adriana and Bayerl P., Saskia and Bisogni, Fabio and Chirică, Sofia and Costanzo, Pietro and Fernández, Charlotte and Ficet, Joël and Gascó, Mila and Gruschinske, Mario and Horton, Kate and Jacobs, Gabriele and Jochoms, Theo and Krstevska, Katerina and Mirceva, Stojanka and Mouhanna, Christian and van den Oord, Ad and Oțoiu, Cătălina and Rajkovcevski, Rade and Rațiu, Lucia and Reguli, Zdenko and Rus, Claudia and Stein-Müller, Susanne and Stojanovski, Trpe and Vallet, Nathalie and Varga, Mihai and Vít, Michal and Vonaș, Gabriel (2020) FACTORS INFLUENCING CROSS-BORDER KNOWLEDGE SHARING BY POLICE ORGANISATIONS: AN INTEGRATION OF TEN EUROPEAN CASE STUDIES. Police Practice and Research - An International Journal. ISSN Print ISSN: 1561-4263 Online ISSN: 1477-271X
The globalisation of crime means there is an increasingly vital need for effective sharing of knowledge by police organisations across international borders. However, identifying the complexities and challenges of this aspect of international collaboration has been relatively neglected in previous research. The research reported in this paper therefore set out to identify the major barriers and facilitators of international knowledge sharing. Research teams in ten European countries produced ten case studies of knowledge sharing across borders, either involving direct cooperation between police forces in different countries or through international agencies such as CEPOL or INTERPOL. The integrative findings showed that the major influences on knowledge sharing could be theoretically categorised in terms of organisational factors (e.g., technological and staff capabilities), inter-organisational factors (e.g., quality of relationships, shared visions and systems), inter-country factors (e.g., bilateral conventions, legislation) and knowledge characteristics (e.g., clarity, legal sensitivity). Practical implications include standardising technology systems across countries, improving inter-organisational trust through exchanges and physical co-working, developing police members' knowledge and skills with regards to collaborative working and creating joint agreements and visions. Research implications highlighted the need to test the findings in non-European contexts and to comparatively focus on specific types of collaboration.
