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Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

open access: yesContraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2020
Context Seventy-five percent of incarcerated women are of reproductive age, most of whom are at-risk for unintended pregnancy. Women who are incarcerated come disproportionately from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds and often lack access to ...
Mishka S. Peart, Andrea K. Knittel
doaj   +1 more source

Contraception Methods Selection Behavior Among Female Contraception Users

open access: yesJurnal Cakrawala Promkes, 2022
Background: Family Planning aims to regulate childbirth and pregnancy interval by using various contraception methods. Eventhough there is many choice among contraception methods, intramuscular injection is still the most used method.
Lasiah Susanti, Wafiq Anikoh
doaj   +1 more source

Contemporary Hormonal Contraception and the Risk of Breast Cancer

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2017
Background Little is known about whether contemporary hormonal contraception is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Methods We assessed associations between the use of hormonal contraception and the risk of invasive breast cancer in a ...
L. Mørch   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Cross-Sectional Study of the Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence, Menstruation, Genital Tract Health, and Contraception Use among Women in Jordan

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020
. The COVID-19 pandemic is a major global concern for public health where high numbers of COVID-19–infected cases and deaths have been recorded. This study assessed the COVID-19 pandemic impact on domestic violence, genital tract health, menstruation ...
Iman Aolymat
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Covert use of contraception in three sub-Saharan African countries: a qualitative exploration of motivations and challenges

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background The balance between increasing men’s participation in family planning and rights-based initiatives favoring women’s empowerment is highlighted with the issue of covert use of contraception.
S. P. Kibira   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of a Survey to Assess the Acceptability of an Innovative Contraception Practice among Rural Pharmacists

open access: yesPharmacy, 2014
Improved access to effective contraceptive methods is needed in Canada, particularly in rural areas, where unintended pregnancy rates are high and specific sexual health services may be further away.
Michael Wong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bayesian semiparametric modelling of contraceptive behavior in India via sequential logistic regressions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (2019). 182, 225-247, 2014
Family planning has been characterized by highly different strategic programs in India, including method-specific contraceptive targets, coercive sterilization, and more recent target-free approaches. These major changes in family planning policies over time have motivated a considerable interest towards assessing the effectiveness of the different ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression.

open access: yesJAMA psychiatry, 2016
Importance Millions of women worldwide use hormonal contraception. Despite the clinical evidence of an influence of hormonal contraception on some women's mood, associations between the use of hormonal contraception and mood disturbances remain ...
C. Skovlund   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Integration of a contraception clinic into an opioid treatment setting to improve contraception knowledge, accessibility and uptake: a pilot study

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2020
Objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of integrating a contraception clinic within an opioid agonist treatment (OAT) service to improve access to contraception, especially long‐acting reversible methods of contraception (LARC), for women
Carolyn A. Day   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long-acting reversible contraception by effervescent microneedle patch

open access: yesScience Advances, 2019
An effervescent microneedle patch has been designed for rapid separation of drug-loaded microneedles and long-term contraception. To increase access to long-acting contraception, we developed a reversible contraceptive microneedle patch that is simple-to-
Wei Li   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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