Dehlendorf, Christine;
Sarnaik, Shashi;
Bell, April J;
Lindsey, Alyssa;
Hart, Jamie;
Desai, Sheila;
Balde, Bilgissou;
... Boydell, Vicky; + view all
(2025)
What About Well-Being? Measuring What We Really Care About in Sexual
and Reproductive Health.
Studies in Family Planning
10.1111/sifp.70022.
(In press).
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Abstract
The well-being of individuals and communities is increasingly recognized as a core objective of economic and global development policies and programs. However, existing measures of well-being neglect sexual and reproductive experiences, which are core dimensions of people's lives. While there has been increasing attention to the concept of sexual well-being, measures of sexual and reproductive health are predominantly deficit-based and ignore whether people are having positive experiences. To consider the development of a measure of sexual and reproductive well-being, a multidisciplinary and geographically diverse group of experts was convened. Outcomes of this meeting included endorsement of a draft definition of sexual and reproductive well-being, demonstrated enthusiasm and commitment to the development of a measure capturing this construct, and delineation of core considerations in the measure development process. These included considering the diversity of normative and political contexts around sexuality and reproduction, and the critical nature of meaningful community engagement when developing this measure. A pathway for measuring development was defined, with the goal of creating a concise measure assessing people's holistic experiences of sexuality and reproduction that can draw attention to and monitor the extent to which people are having the sexual and reproductive lives they wish to have.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | What About Well-Being? Measuring What We Really Care About in Sexual and Reproductive Health |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sifp.70022 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.70022 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Studies in Family Planning published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Population Council. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health > Reproductive Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209643 |
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