Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health And The Environment pptx

Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health and the Environment Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health [...]... Are the chemicals we have introduced into our environment and our bodies interfering with our ability to conceive and bear healthy children? And, if so, how do we stop endangering our survival and, instead, start shaping our legacy? Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility To begin to answer these questions, the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and. .. the Environment and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment s (CHE) Working Group on Fertility and Early Pregnancy Compromise convened the Reproductive Health, Fertility and Our Environment 5 Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive The UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and Health and Fertility (also rethe Environment (PRHE) is a new transdisciplinary ferred to as the Summit in program... Ballweg 12 Challenging our Survival? Reproductive Health and the Environment Shaping Our Legacy: Hormones Important to Fertility, Reproduction and Fetal Development Dihydrotestosterone A potent form of testosterone that is essential to the development of the male reproductive system during fetal life — speciically, the prostate gland, the penis, the urethra and the scrotum — and the male brain During... the cell and in the body For example, proteins perform most of the work performed by cells, and they give cells their shape and help them to move Proteins make up the hormones that transmit signals throughout the body and the antibodies that recognize foreign substances in the body Proteins also carry important molecules, such as oxygen and hormones, through the bloodstream 8 Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive. .. the development of the urethra in the penis (the urethra is the tube through which urine and semen travel) The urethra normally runs the full length of the penis, with the opening at the tip of the penis In hypospadias, the opening instead forms on the underside of the penis or below the penis Hypospadias is the second most common birth defect in the United States and national studies report that the. .. twenty-fold and the number of chemicals registered for commercial use has grown by over Reproductive health refers to the health and healthy functioning of the female and male reproductive systems during all stages of life Reproductive health means that women and men are capable of conceiving, that a woman is able to maintain a pregnancy to full term and to breastfeed, and that the baby is born healthy and. .. education, and players from the research, health policies that reduce the impact of chemihealth care, environmental cal exposures on fertility and reproductive health justice, advocacy and policy www.prhe.ucsf.edu arenas gathered January 28-30, 2007, to share their The Collaborative on Health and the Environresearch and expertise ment (CHE) is a diverse network of over 2,900 indion what information and vidual... developed Reproductive health also means that children will not develop diseases or disabilities later in life that are caused by exposures they experienced in the womb or during infancy, early childhood or adolescence, and that they will be able to conceive and bear healthy and properly developed children 2 Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health and the Environment 30 percent since 1979 Manufactured and. .. relationship to reproductive health The Chemicals in Our Environment and Our Bodies chapter (page 55) provides more information on these chemicals, including what they are used for and how humans are exposed Also, terms that appear in purple are deined at the bottom of the page on which they irst appear, or on the following page They are also deined in the Glossary (page 51) About the people quoted... vidual and organizational partners in 45 countries changes are needed to imand 48 states, working collectively to advance prove our collective underknowledge and efective action to address growstanding of environmental ing concerns about the links between human reproductive health This health and environmental factors meeting helped unite an www.healthandenvironment.org emerging environmental reproductive . groups, and the media. 6 Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health and the Environment The Risks to Reproductive Health and Fertility Conception, pregnancy and. Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health and the Environment Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and