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The Measurement and Meaning of Unintended Pregnancy
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2003Unintended pregnancy combines two aspects of fertility: unwanted and mistimed pregnancies. The personal partnership social and political realities of these two aspects are different and the use of separate categories may better reflect the way women think about a pregnancy.
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Caring for Women with Unintended Pregnancies
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 2011Unintended pregnancy is a common reproductive health event. Professional responsibilities for nurses providing care to women with unintended pregnancies include appropriate assessment, options counseling, provision of or referral for desired services, care coordination, and prevention efforts aimed at decreasing future unintended pregnancies.
Katherine, Simmonds, Frances E, Likis
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Unintended Pregnancy and Taxpayer Spending
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011CONTEXT: Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. These pregnancies likely represent a substantial cost to taxpayers, but national‐level estimates of these public costs have been lacking. METHODS: Taxpayer spending on unintended pregnancy is measured by multiplying estimates of the 2001 incidence ...
Emily, Monea, Adam, Thomas
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MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 2003
Unintended pregnancies occur in all age groups and socioeconomic strata of our society and represent significant social, medical, and economic costs. Nearly 50% of all pregnancies in the United States are classified as unintended, and approximately 48% of all women ages 15 to 44 have experienced at least one unintended pregnancy.
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Unintended pregnancies occur in all age groups and socioeconomic strata of our society and represent significant social, medical, and economic costs. Nearly 50% of all pregnancies in the United States are classified as unintended, and approximately 48% of all women ages 15 to 44 have experienced at least one unintended pregnancy.
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Preventing unintended teenage pregnancies
Public Health, 1993A review of the literature on unplanned and teenage pregnancies was undertaken for four District Health Authorities. This work was carried out within a national context of increasing conception rates for teenage women aged 16 and under and in the knowledge that pregnant teenagers and their children tend to have poor life chances.
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Unintended Pregnancy in the United States
Family Planning Perspectives, 1998Current debates on how to reduce the high U.S. abortion rate often fail to take into account the role of unintended pregnancy, an important determinant of abortion.Data from the 1982, 1988 and 1995 cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, supplemented by data from other sources, are used to estimate 1994 rates and percentages of unintended birth
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Late Recognition of Unintended Pregnancies
Public Health Nursing, 2015AbstractObjectiveLate recognition of pregnancy and unintended pregnancy has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, low birth weight, and admission to neonatal care. This study examined the factors associated with late recognition of pregnancy among women reporting unintended pregnancy.Design and SampleA secondary ...
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Preventing Unintended Pregnancy
The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 2009Abstract This article explores techniques that nurse practitioners (NPs) can incorporate into their current practice to reduce a woman's risk for unintended pregnancy. NPs facilitate an open dialogue with female patients to assess their reproductive needs and determine their risk for unintended pregnancy. They promote satisfaction with a birth control
Mary J. McEneaney, Gretchen A. Hong
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Unintended Pregnancy in America and Abroad
Family Planning Perspectives, 1988U.S. women under age 25 are far more likely to become pregnant than are comparable young women in other developed countries; however, there is no such differential among older women. Young American women appear to be no more likely than their European contemporaries to marry or to engage in intercourse at a young age, but they do seem less likely to ...
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Unintended pregnancies that lead to babies
Social Science & Medicine, 1988Among a random sample of women giving birth to a live baby in 1984 in England, just over a quarter described the pregnancy as unintended. This, together with the ratio of legal terminations to live or still births, suggests that about two-fifths of conceptions are unintended. Data from the study suggest that babies resulting from unintended pregnancies
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