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Unplanned teenage pregnancy

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2003
This chapter addresses unplanned teenage pregnancy from a human-rights-based perspective. Many programmes focus only on the negative aspects of young people's sexual and reproductive health; putting rights at the centre of teenage sexual health avoids treating adolescents as a homogeneous collection of discrete problems.
Pramilla, Senanayake, Kathryn M, Faulkner   +1 more
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PREVENTING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES

Medical Journal of Australia, 1978
A two-year study was undertaken in 1975--1976 to plan, implement and evaluate innovatory family planning educational and service delivery pilot projects, among those at-risk in Sydney. The study was done in three stages, described in the three parts of this paper.
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Public Perceptions about Unplanned Pregnancy

Family Planning Perspectives, 1997
A nationally representative telephone survey in 1994 of 2,002 adults indicates that 60% believe that unplanned pregnancy is a very big problem in the United States, and virtually all (90%) say it is at least a somewhat big problem. Two-thirds mistakenly believe that a larger percentage of women have unplanned pregnancies now than 10 years ago.
J, Mauldon, S, Delbanco
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Unplanned pregnancies at antenatal clinic

Midwifery, 1988
Abstract Between May and June 1986 a case control study of late and early attenders at antenatal clinic took place in two South Wales hospitals, one urban and one rural. The study examined the social and attitudinal characteristics of 115 late attenders (18 weeks or later) and a similar number of age matched early attenders (15 weeks or earlier).
C, Lester, S, Farrow
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Unplanned and assisted conception pregnancies

BMJ, 2011
High prevalence of unplanned pregnancy warrants primary and secondary prevention efforts Among the most important decisions that individuals and couples face during their reproductive years is if and when to have a child, and how many children to have. Ideally, pregnancy occurs if and when it is desired.
Jessica D, Gipson, John S, Santelli
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UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES AND THE PILL

Medical Journal of Australia, 1980
PIP: In the past 3 months, I have had 7 patients referred to me with unplanned pregnancies, all having occurred while on 2 low-dosage preparations containing levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol (Nordette and Microgynon 30). From the patients' histories it appeared that there was no evidence of patient error, but the 1 common factor was that all the ...
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Unplanned pregnancies in New Zealand

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2017
BackgroundUnplanned pregnancies can bring risk. It is important to have an accurate count of unplanned pregnancies, but to date there is no precise number for New Zealand or Australia.AimsThis analysis estimates the number and proportion of pregnancies in New Zealand that are unplanned.Materials and methodsEstimates were generated using information ...
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Escape ovulation and unplanned pregnancy

Contraception, 1971
Abstract A new regimen for the administration of an oral contraceptive, consisting of 16 tablets of estrogen, 6 of estrogen plus progestogen, and 6 inert tablets is described. Clinical studies of effectiveness involved 3,361 women and 26,686 cycles (2,053 woman-years).
F.M. Sturtevant, Raymond B. Wait
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"Unplanned pregnancies in the United States"

Studies in Family Planning, 1986
Unplanned pregnancies constitute an epidemic in the United States. Over 3 million unplanned pregnancies occur, and over 1.5 million induced abortions are performed each year. Women of minority races and those with less than 12 years of education are at high risk of having unwanted children.
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[Unplanned pregnancy in Portugal].

Acta medica portuguesa, 1997
This study was to determine the prevalence of unplanned pregnancy in a national sample of Portuguese puerperae and to define a risk profile for women with unplanned pregnancy. We also evaluated the independent effect of unplanned pregnancy in prenatal care utilisation and in the prevalence of preterm birth, low birth weight, and small for gestational ...
M, Tavares, H, Barros
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