Family planning in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs): A scoping review [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The use of contraceptives for family planning improves women’s lives and may prevent maternal deaths. However, many women in low and middle-income countries, including the Pacific region, still die from pregnancy-related complications.
Relmah Baritama Harrington +3 more
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Determinants of quality contraceptive counselling information among young women in Sierra Leone: insights from the 2019 Sierra Leone demographic health survey [PDF]
BMC Women's Health, 2023 Background The quality of contraceptive counseling information received by prospective clients of family planning services can greatly influence both the uptake and continued use of contraceptives.
Quraish Sserwanja +3 more
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Pemanfaatan Pelayanan Kesehatan dan Persepsi dengan Kepatuhan Akseptor Keluarga Berencana (KB) pada Masa Pandemi COVID-19 [PDF]
Jurnal Cakrawala Promkes, 2022 Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on family planning programs. The government has made a new policy to limit family planning services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fika Nuri Fathul Jannah +1 more
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Predictors of nurses’ and midwives’ intentions to provide maternal and child healthcare services to adolescents in South Africa [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2016 Background Adolescent mothers are at a much higher risk for maternal mortality compared to mothers aged 20 years and above. Newborns born to adolescent mothers are also more likely to have low birth weight, with the risk of long-term effects such as ...
Kim Jonas +6 more
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The effects of COVID-19 pandemic on women’s access to maternal health and family planning services in Egypt: an exploratory study in two governorates [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground The COVID-19 pandemic has been noted to decrease access to maternal health and family planning services globally. However, evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region is very scarce and limited.
Nahla Abdel Tawab +3 more
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Pregnancy outcomes in women affected by fetal alpha-thalassemia: a case control study
Scientific Reports, 2021 To evaluate the possible associations between fetal α-thalassemia and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes using a provincial woman-child health service information database in China.
Jiangheng Li +6 more
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Aggressive Behavior, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 5-14, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This study uses longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (N = 13,277) to examine the childhood and early adolescence factors that predict weapon involvement in middle adolescence, which in this study is exemplified by having carried or used a weapon.
Aase Villadsen, Emla Fitzsimons
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Reproductive Health, 2022 Plain language summary Family planning use increased from 17 to 53% in Rwanda in between 2005 and 2015. The purpose of this study is to understand the roles of two types of family planning workers in providing family planning services, how those ...
Adriana Scanteianu +24 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background Person-Centered Maternity Care (PCMC) is known as one of the most important components of maternal care. Every woman has the ultimate right of respectful health care.
Sumbal Hameed +4 more
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Development of Tele Counseling Model in Family Planning Services
Women, Midwives and Midwifery, 2023 Background: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was truly extraordinary. Not only affecting the health sector or the economy, this outbreak also has an impact on population problems. The decrease in access to health services was not only for ill patients
Ferina Ferina, Dian Nur Hadianti
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