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State Choices, Unequal Access: Policies Shaping Reproductive Health Care Across the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points State policies and programs play an outsized role in shaping availability and access to sexual and reproductive health services across the nation. This has a major impact on women's access to contraception, abortion, and maternity services.
ALINA SALGANICOFF, IVETTE GOMEZ, USHA RANJI   +2 more
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Female contraception over 40

, 2009
BACKGROUND The majority of women 40–49 years of age need an effective method of contraception because the decline in fertility with age is an insufficient protection against unwanted pregnancy. Although pregnancy is less likely after the age of 40 years,
Leridon, Henri, , The ESHRE Capri Workshop Group   +1 more
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Correlates of unmet need for contraception in Bangladesh: Does couples' concordance in household decision making matter?

, 2016
© 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction A large body of literature has highlighted that women's household decision-making power is associated with better reproductive health outcomes, while most of the studies tend to measure such power ...
Sabah, MNU, Uddin, J, Pulok, MH
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Non-Contraceptive Benefits of Oral Hormonal Contraceptives

International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2012
It is becoming evident that oral hormonal contraceptives-besides being well established contraceptives-seem to become important medications for many functional or organic disturbances. So far, clinical effectiveness has been shown for treatment as well as prevention of menstrual bleeding disorders and menstrual-related pain symptoms.
openaire   +5 more sources

What Happens After Menopause (WHAM)? A Progress Report of a Prospective Controlled Study of Women After Pre‐Menopausal Risk‐Reducing Bilateral Salpingo‐Oophorectomy

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surgical menopause, the removal of both ovaries prior to natural menopause, may impact short‐and long‐term physical and emotional health. An increasingly common cause of surgical menopause is risk‐reducing salpingo‐oophorectomy (RRSO) in those at high inherited risk of ovarian cancer.
Sarah A. L. Price, Pauline M. Maki, Samar R. El Khoudary, Alison Brand, Rakibul M. Islam, Susan M. Domchek, Hadine Joffe, Gita D. Mishra, Katrina M. Moss, Fiona C. Baker, Sabine Braat, John D. Wark, Martha Hickey   +12 more
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Contraception method following spontaneous abortion in N’djamena Mother and Child Hospital

South Sudan Medical Journal, 2020
Introduction: Contraception is the prevention of pregnancy. It can be offered immediately after a spontaneous abortion. Objective: The aim of this study was to show the characteristics of patients accepting contraception after a spontaneous abortion ...
Gabkikabray Madoué, Foumsou Lhagadang, Abdelsalam Saleh , Saibana Gama   +3 more
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Factors Associated With Hormone Replacement Therapy Use: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To identify factors associated with HRT uptake among women. Design A systematic review and meta‐analysis to identify factors associated with HRT uptake. Setting Retrospective and prospective cohort studies, case–control studies and cross‐sectional studies from any country and in any language. Population The study population was women
Wema Meranda Mtika, Deborah Allen, Eve Tranter, Grace Glover, Janice Hoang, Sarah Hillman, Carol Coupland, Julia Hippisley‐Cox, Lynn Tatnell, Jennifer A. Hirst   +9 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Elagolix Versus Dienogest for Treatment of Moderate‐to‐Severe Endometriosis Pain: A Phase III, Multicentric, Double‐Blind, Active‐Controlled, Non‐Inferiority Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy, safety and tolerability of elagolix with dienogest in women with moderate‐to‐severe endometriosis‐associated pain. Design A multicentre, double‐blind, double‐dummy, randomised, parallel‐group, active‐controlled, non‐inferiority phase III study. Setting Nineteen clinical centres across India.
Sneha Bhoir, Jaldhara Patel, Tushar Palve, Mrinal Kanti Dash, Sweety Saigal, Gourisankar Kamilya, Shalini Srivastava, Kartikbhai Savalia, Tanusree Gupta, Deepa Choudhary, Manohar Rangaswamy, Vidya V Bhatt, Neena Gupta, Malathi Ponnuru, Parul Shah, Apurva Shetty, Shruti Saha, Reshma Quadros, Sucheta Pandit, Dipak Patil, Piyush Patel, Pravin Ghadge, Lalit Lakhwani, Suyog Mehta, Sadhana Joglekar   +24 more
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