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The Modernization of U.S. Contraceptive Practice
Family Planning Perspectives, 1972The National Fertility Studies between 1965 and 1970 involving probability samples of 4810 and 5884 married women indicated changes in the distribution of contraceptive methods used by couples. The proportion of couples who never used contraception declined from 14.8% to 11.1% between 1965 and 1970 while those not using contraceptives decreased from ...
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Predictors of Discontinuation of Modern Spacing Contraceptives in India
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2020Data from National Family Health Survey (2015-2016) was analyzed to examine the contraceptive acceptance, discontinuation rates, and associated factors among reproductive age women in India over one year. Findings revealed that 11.7% accepted modern methods of which 68% were for spacing. Only 5% switched to other methods. Discontinuation rate was high
Shahina Begum +3 more
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Discontinuation of modern hormonal contraceptives: an Italian survey
The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 2016The aim of the study was to examine, in a sample of Italian women, the rate of discontinuation of use of hormonal contraception.In a retrospective cross-sectional study, data were collected from a chart review of 1809 women using or stopping the hormonal contraceptive prescribed by their physician.
Fruzzetti, F. +5 more
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The development of modern contraceptive technology
Technology in Society, 1987Abstract Contraceptive technology development faces a crisis caused more by societal factors than scientific issues. Private-sector investment in contraceptive research and marketing has dropped considerably because of the rising costs of product development and anxiety over exposure to expensive litigation against product liability claims.
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Modern Intra‐uterine Contraceptive Devices
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1971Summary: Comparative results are presented with the use of the Margulie's spiral (“Gynekoil”) and Lippe's loop in 500 women in private practice over a period of 5 years. In this series there were no pregnancies due to undetected expulsion, but the pregnancy rate with the device in situ was 1.7 per 100 women years with the spiral and 0.9 for the loop ...
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Modern Contraception in Men and Women
2004This chapter presents information on various contraceptive methods available for men and women. Modern contraceptive methods have been in use since the introduction of the male condom in the 1600s and the cervical cap in the 1820s. Modern contraceptive techniques include sex steroid methods that affect ovulation and include oral contraceptives (OCs ...
Lee P. Shulman +2 more
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The intrauterine device in modern contraception: Still an actuality?
The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 2006The intrauterine devices (IUD) is a contraceptive method largely used as an effective, safe and economic method of contraception; IUD efficacy is demonstrated to be about 97%, and copper IUD contraceptive failure frequency is about 0.8% for the first year of use, and this is about 0.1-0.2% for the progestin IUD.
A. TINELLI +4 more
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On the Societal Impact of Modern Contraception
2010The tenor of this essay is not that modern contraception is the cause of all the demographic changes indicated. Rather, it should be interpreted as an attempt to highlight its important role in the process of social change industrialized societies experienced since the mid-1969s.The three dimensions of social change are: structural/economic change ...
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Modernization, Contraception and Fertility Change in India
International Family Planning Perspectives, 1988Indian fertility levels prior to the introduction of birth control were moderately high yet below levels observed in many developing countries. Despite early marriage and the universality of marriage in India periods of sexual abstinence and other cultural practices are believed to have kept the level of natural fertility lower than in European ...
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Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2014
Since the development of combined oral contraceptives over 50 years ago, significant innovations have occurred in the domain of the progestin. Evolving knowledge of progestin mechanism of action and physiology has allowed for development of novel progestins with limited steroid receptor cross-reactivity, decreased side effect profiles, and ...
Kirtly Parker Jones, Pamela A. Royer
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Since the development of combined oral contraceptives over 50 years ago, significant innovations have occurred in the domain of the progestin. Evolving knowledge of progestin mechanism of action and physiology has allowed for development of novel progestins with limited steroid receptor cross-reactivity, decreased side effect profiles, and ...
Kirtly Parker Jones, Pamela A. Royer
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