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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Contraceptive methods"”.
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Improving Women’s Health Services by Adding Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods into Primary Care-Focused Student Health
<p> Often resulting from inconsistent contraceptive use, unintended pregnancy among young women between ages 18-24 continues to be an issue in the United States. Long-acting reversible contraceptives, including intrauterine contraceptives and the subdermal contraceptive implant, are safe, …
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The effects of the pill,injectables and male condom on fertility in urban Zambia: evidence from the ZDHS 1992-2014
… declined in Zambia especially in urban areas. Contraceptive use has increased with the pill, injectables and male condom being the most widely used methods between 1992 and 2014. However, there is no evidence which clearly shows whether the use of these contraceptive methods has contributed to …
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The effects of the pill,injectables and male condom on fertility in urban Zambia: evidence from the ZDHS 1992-2014
… declined in Zambia especially in urban areas. Contraceptive use has increased with the pill, injectables and male condom being the most widely used methods between 1992 and 2014. However, there is no evidence which clearly shows whether the use of these contraceptive methods has contributed to …
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Determinants Of Women’s Decisions to Modern Contraceptive Use In Tanzania: A Case Study Of Tanga Municipality
… determinants of women’s decision to use modern contraceptive in Tanzania. Tanga municipality was used as a case study. In specific, the study determined the trend of modern contraceptive use for women in the past ten years (from 2004/2005 to 2013/2014); women’s preference to modern contraceptive …
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Influence of Contraceptive Advertising into Consumer’s Purchasing Decision: The Case Study of Population Services International Organization- Tanzania, in Dar es Salaam Region
Influence of contraceptives advertising on consumer’s purchasing decision was a study conducted in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, involving PSI Tanzania customers and employees. The study was conducted in order to examine the extent to which advertising contraceptives has been influencing consumer’s …
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Reproductive and contraceptive knowledge among women with hypertensive and cardiac disease
… hypertension attending outpatient clinics. Methods: This was a prospective descriptive study. Women aged between 18 and 45 years attending cardiac or hypertension clinics at Groote Schuur Hospital, Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain Day Hospitals were recruited. The study tool was an …
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Reproductive and contraceptive knowledge among women with hypertensive and cardiac disease
… hypertension attending outpatient clinics. Methods: This was a prospective descriptive study. Women aged between 18 and 45 years attending cardiac or hypertension clinics at Groote Schuur Hospital, Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain Day Hospitals were recruited. The study tool was an …
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“Face of Fertility: Migrant isiXhosa-speaking Women's Reproductive Experiences and Agency in the Cape 1950-1989”
… the 1980s. It examines why they decided to use contraceptive methods provided at state health facilities from 1960-1989, when they had been raised in a cultural context where a woman's reproductive capacity (fertility) was highly prized. While there have been influential quantitative demographic …
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Trends and determinants of contraceptive prevalence in Namibia: from the 90s to the new millenium
… have a history of high fertility levels and low contraceptive use. However, contraceptive methods have been used one way or another throughout human history, although, due to improvements, these methods have evolved over the years. In Namibia, there tend to be a huge gap between women's knowledge …
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Appearance Over Function - The Impact of Long-Term Oral Contraceptive Use on Brain Development, Breast Tissue Composition, and Future Lactation Outcomes
… examines the long-term effects of combined oral contraceptive (COC) use beginning in puberty on brain development, breast tissue composition, and future breastfeeding outcomes. Puberty is a critical developmental stage during which hormonal changes significantly impact the neurological and …
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Fertility Desires and Fertility Control: Young Women's Contraceptive decision-making in Khayelitsha, South Africa
… need of contraception for adolescent girls. Contraceptive use and non-use by young women of low socioeconomic status is a complex issue that reveals a range of political and socio-economic injustices. Barriers to contraceptive access and use have been identified to include: health care …
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Impendiments to contraceptive use in women admitted with abortion at the University Teaching Hospital(UTH)
… of existing services, fear or distrust of methods or conflict between partners about childbearing goals, still not using modem contraceptive methods to prevent unplanned pregnancies (The Alan Guttmacher Institute). The aim of the study was to determine impediments to contraceptive use in …
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Pregnancy Intendedness in a High-Risk Obstetric Population in a Tertiary Hospital.
… perceived high obstetric risk, and to assess contraceptive knowledge and use in this high-risk group of pregnant women. Method This cross-sectional descriptive study assessed pregnancy intendedness in a group of 222 participants, aged 18 years and older, recruited from patients at a tertiary …
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The reasons why women in Ndola Urban are not using Emergency Contraceptives
… measures to make available a broader range of contraceptive methods. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to determine factors associated with contraceptive use, to determine the cause of nonuse of emergency Contraceptives (EC), to determine the possible barriers which may be …
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Natural Law, the Object of the Act, and Double Effect: Moral Methodology for Catholic Health Care Ethics
… therapies for gender dysphoria and the use of contraceptive methods for non-contraceptive benefits.</p>
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Awareness and attitudes of adolescents towards the use of intrauterine device in Makhado Local Municipality, South Africa
… Progestogen implants are long-acting reversible contraceptive methods that are highly effective and have the greatest potential to reduce unintended pregnancies. According to District Health Barometer, uptake of the intrauterine device is low across the country. There has been a noted increase in …
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Factors that influence adolescent on the use of contraceptives in the dreams project, Khomas region Namibia
Contraceptive use is crucial for preventing unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents. However, low contraceptive uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa remains a significant public health concern. The study fit a binary logistics model, to explore fctors influencing …
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Contraceptive careers: young women's choices, influences and risks
… we understand why young women use particular contraceptive methods, why they stop using them, and why, in turn, they switch to other methods. The majority of studies in this area have been quantitative, and few have taken place in the UK. This study examines the patterns of contraceptive use …
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An exploration of knowledge, attitudes and practices of primary health care providers providing contraceptive and family planning services in Cape Town, South Africa: a qualitative study
… make informed decisions when selecting suitable contraceptive methods during contraceptive counselling. This study explores the experiences and perceptions of primary health care providers delivering contraceptives services in Cape Town to gain a deeper understanding of the delivery of …
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Eugenics, demography and family planning in Greece, 1950-1980: the activities of the Hellenic Eugenics Society
… illegal. Because they were unable to use modern contraceptive methods, Greek women underwent induced abortion as the only alternative to an unwanted pregnancy. Greek eugenicists, who advocated in favour of family planning and, quality over quantity, in terms of birth, challenged the state’s …
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