Postpartum Contraception in Northern Tanzania: Patterns of Use, Relationship to Antenatal Intentions, and Impact of Antenatal Counseling.

abstract：:During the past decade, unmet need for family planning has remained high in Pakistan and gains in contraceptive prevalence have been small. Drawing upon data from a 2012 national study on postabortion-care complications and a methodology developed by the Guttmacher Institute for estimating abortion incidence, we estim...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Sathar Z,Singh S,Rashida G,Shah Z,Niazi R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the determinants of the use of four types of reproductive health-care services in Uttar Pradesh, India: contraceptive services, antenatal care, delivery in a medical institution, and services dealing with reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections. The analysis uses a multilevel modelin...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Stephenson R,Tsui AO

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although experimental trials often identify optimal strategies for improving community health, transferring operational innovation from well-funded research programs to resource-constrained settings often languishes. Because research initiatives are based in institutions equipped with unique resources and staff capabi...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Awoonor-Williams JK,Feinglass ES,Tobey R,Vaughan-Smith MN,Nyonator FK,Jones TC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within developing countries, our understanding of reproductive inequality-how fertility is distributed within a population-has been shaped largely by studies of fertility differentials, a practical but partial-information measure. In this study, we examine whether exclusive reliance on differentials biases this unders...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Giroux SC,Eloundou-Enyegue PM,Lichter DT

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family planning progress in Singapore during 1972 is reviewed. The Singapore Family Planning and Population Board launched its most intensive family planning campaign in July 1972. A primary objective of the campaign was to promote both male and female sterilizations. Stronger social disincentives to discourage lar...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Kee WF,Lee AS

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of evaluation projects and demographic surveys were undertaken by the government during 1978-80, aimed at strengthening family planning and other population programs. A bill to strengthen the program was introduced in the National Assembly which would, among other things, amend the tax structure to discourag...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Concepción MB

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ever-increasing prevalence of negative shocks experienced by poor, vulnerable households often induces extreme measures as ways to recover from the negative effects on income. Child marriage is one of the coping mechanisms households may use. This study examines whether young people in households that experience a...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Molotsky A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we model women's recourse to induced abortion as resulting from a process that starts with sexual intercourse and contraceptive use (or nonuse), continues with the occurrence of an unintended pregnancy, and ends with the woman's decision to terminate the pregnancy and her access to abortion services. Ou...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Rossier C,Michelot F,Bajos N,COCON Group.

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary results from the Paraguay Demographic and Health Survey, 1990, are presented for population, fertility, contraceptive usage, postpartum activity, infant mortality, immunization coverage, oral rehydration treatment, use of health personnel during delivery, and nutritional status. Data were compiled by the ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the levels and correlates of contraceptive failure and discontinuation in Romania, together with the consequences of contraceptive method failure in terms of induced abortion. Of special interest are women who rely on the traditional method of withdrawal and the proportion of withdrawal failures re...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Creanga AA,Acharya R,Ahmed S,Tsui AO

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study re-evaluates the relationship of urban women's employment to their health-service and contraceptive use, drawing on data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey. Multivariate analyses reveal significant differences across types of work for the likelihood of both obtaining timely prenatal care...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Miles-Doan R,Brewster KL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines women's covert use of contraceptives, that is, their use of a method without their husbands' knowledge. Three questions are addressed: (1) How is covert use measured? (2) How prevalent is it? and (3) What are the factors underlying covert use? Existing studies are used together with survey and qu...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Biddlecom AE,Fapohunda BM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although contraceptive practice has increased substantially in Korea as a result of a strong national family planning program, surveys indicate the existence of an additional unmet demand. A number of obstacles tend to limit availability of family planning services and supplies. The effects of total availability are b...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Park CB,Cho LJ,Palmore JA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family planning activity during 1969-1970 in Morocco and Tunisia is discussed in terms of 12 criteria (such as leadership, educational services, availability) used to evaluate the programs in the 2 countries. Significant differences between family planning activity in the 2 countries can be seen in the nature of invo...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Lapham R

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No studies show that IUDs destroy developing embryos at rates higher than those found in women who are not using contraceptives. Studies of early pregnancy factors have not shown statistically significant differences in transient levels of hCG between IUD and control groups, a sign of early abortion. The small, carefu...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Sivin I

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes longitudinal data from Matlab, Bangladesh, to examine the impact of child mortality on subsequent contraceptive acceptance and continuation. The strong negative impact is found to attenuate with family size, indicating a "replacement effect". An "insurance effect" is observed as contraceptive accep...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Rahman M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents results from the 1997 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey (JPFHS) that was conducted by the Department of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, within the framework of the Demographic and Health Survey Program of Macro International. The data for the nationally representative JPFHS were collected fr...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an overview of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) as a data source. MICS-one of the largest household survey programs focused on children and women-has covered 116 countries, many over several rounds of surveys producing trend data. Data are collected on a range of indicators for child...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Khan S,Hancioglu A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimation of fecundability from survey data is plagued by methodological problems such as misreporting of dates of birth and marriage and the occurrence of premarital exposure to the risk of conception. Nevertheless, estimates of fecundability from World Fertility Survey data for women married in recent years app...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Goldman N,Westoff CF,Paul LE

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world has reached the present position of unprecedentedly rapid population growth not by achieving uniquely high fertility but by bringing about extraordinarily low mortality. The high growth rate and the built-in momentum of the age structure are obstacles to achievement of an acceptable standard of living for mo...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Caldwell JC

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mexico National Survey on Fertility and Health was national in scope. Data was collected from 7786 households and complete interviews conducted with 9310 women aged 15-49. Field work took place between February and May, 1987. The size of the general population grew from 44.8 million in 1965 to 70.4 million in 1...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors：

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using IN and IS scales that measure underlying family size and sex preferences, respectively, it is found that a majority of married women in a Bangladesh survey have preferences for very large families and for sons. While differences in underlying size preferences are related to age, age at 1st cohabitation, educati...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Ahmed NR

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of a high and increasing incidence of unwanted pregnancy among Nigerian adolescents, a sample survey of never-married residents of the Ibadan area, aged 14 to 25 years, was conducted in 1982 to learn about their perceptions and practices relating to reproductive health. A substantial proportion of the y...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Nichols D,Ladipo OA,Paxman JM,Otolorin EO

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article compares the ethical pivot points in debates over nonprescription access to emergency contraceptive pills in Canada and the United States. These include women's right to be informed about the contraceptive method and its mechanism of action, pharmacists' conscientious objection concerning the dispensing o...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Wynn LL,Erdman JN,Foster AM,Trussell J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, female interviewers have been preferred to men for conducting fertility and family planning surveys. However, in West Africa, evidence for their superiority over male interviewers is mixed. In Nigeria, as part of a four-state pretest of the national family planning questionnaire, an experimental design ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Becker S,Feyisetan K,Makinwa-Adebusoye P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of surveys from Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon, Jamaica, and Senegal suggests that the requirement that women seeking hormonal contraception and IUDs should present for family planning services when menstruating represents a significant but unrecognized barrier to contraceptive access. Non-menstruating clients are i...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Stanback J,Thompson A,Hardee K,Janowitz B

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interviews wih women in six villages in India and with educated, working women selected to be trained as interviewers in five states, and evidence from formal studies are discussed to support the conclusions that (1) the low overall rates of contraceptive use in India are at least partly due to low levels of knowledge...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Basu AM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a growing proportion of young people is spending some time in school between puberty and marriage, little research on education in developing countries has been focused on adolescent issues. This article examines the school environment in Kenya and the ways it can help or hinder adolescents. Gender difference...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Mensch BS,Lloyd CB

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2005, Ethiopia liberalized its abortion law and subsequently authorized midwives to offer abortion services. Using a 2013 survey of 188 midwives and 12 interviews with third-year midwifery students, this cross-sectional research examines midwives' attitudes toward abortion to understand their decisions about servic...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Holcombe SJ,Berhe A,Cherie A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite low per capita income and little evidence of economic development, the response to the government-sponsored family planning program in Bali has been remarkably favorable. After five years of government involvement, a total of 29 percent of eligible women are estimated to be using program methods, including 25 ...

journal_title：Studies in family planning

authors： Astawa IB,Waloeyo S,Laing JE

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00