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Women's Health - Infertility
If you need more information relating to infertility, HealthCert Education offers this short online course.
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This women’s health course on infertility. The experience of infertility or subfertility is often unexpected, confronting and can cause feelings of defectiveness, depression, and loss of identity. This course reviews the delicate and complex processes of ovulation, fertilisation, and implantation. It explores factors that contribute to infertility and subfertility including sex, mechanism, lifestyle and environmental factors, recreational drug use and concurrent illness. The course explores the psychological, social, physical, and financial burden of subfertility and infertility, and outlines intervention approaches. Patient case studies illustrate assessment and investigations required to construct a management plan for fertility problems. Content includes reproductive technologies such as in-vitro fertilisation, ovulation induction and DIY artificial insemination including the benefits and implications of these nterventions. Adoption and surrogacy are also considered. Finally, the pivotal role of the practitioner in prevention, education, management, and support of women experiencing recurrent pregnancy loss is addressed.