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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"reproductive decision-making"”.
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Perception of genetic risk in sexual and reproductive decision-making (PGRID) by college students
… psychology. A question of interest is how sexual/reproductive decision-making (i.e., dating, marrying, and childbearing) might be influenced by an individual?s perception of his/her genetic risk and other psychosocial variables. There is a paucity of empirical studies within the literature …
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A Mild Approach to In Vitro Fertilisation: The Complexity of Reproductive Decision-Making in Japan
… political and governance frameworks of assisted reproductive technologies in Japan. I argue that reproductive technology in Japan has evolved as the result of an ambiguous regulatory framework, which has allowed the emergence of a diversity of practices, and which as allowed certain medical …
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The Role of Climate Change Concerns and Perceptions of the Future in Reproductive Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Context
… how individuals think about long-term life decisions, including childbearing. Among macro-level uncertainties, my focus is on climate change, which is no longer a distant threat: it is unfolding in real time, shaping the world we live in, yet what this term means to individuals and the ways …
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Balancing child participation rights, parental responsibility and state intervention in medical and reproductive decision-making under South African law
… by parents and the state, from personal decisions that threaten other important interests. At the international level, the separate personhood of the child has been legally reinforced by the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This instrument entrenches …
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Odour signals contain multi-modal information in the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo).
… they contain and how they may facilitate reproductive decision-making in the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). I use a wild but habituated population to conduct experimental odour presentations showing these mammals are capable of discriminating scents based on sex, familiarity, relatedness …
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Reproductive Health in the Philippines: Poverty, Religiosity, and Navigating Reproductive Choices
… rhetoric that have delayed efforts supporting reproductive health intended to aid low-income women concerning their sexual and reproductive health. The second incentive is to detect how low-income women’s thoughts and behaviors in making reproductive decisions are resonant or not of the …
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A Comparison of the Effects of Parental Stressors in Parents of Diagnosed Versus Undiagnosed Children
… child's medical conditions, parental stress, reproductive decision-making, marital satisfaction, parental alliance, diagnosis values, demographics, and social support use. A volunteer qualitative interview was done to allow participants to elaborate on areas addressed in the survey. In all, …
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“Face of Fertility: Migrant isiXhosa-speaking Women's Reproductive Experiences and Agency in the Cape 1950-1989”
This thesis focuses on the reproductive experiences and agency of a group of isiXhosa-speaking migrants in the Cape from the 1950s to 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 …
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Perceived Utility of Genetic Carrier Screening In A Diverse Patient Population
… clinical utility is based on alterations to reproductive decision-making. However, clinical utility study cohorts cited by these guidelines were largely white, highly educated, of high income, and were often receiving preconception counseling. There is a lack of research on the perspectives …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of sex education and teen pregnancy prevention
… how those experiences influenced their sexual reproductive decision-making and teen pregnancy prevention efforts. The researcher interviewed 15 women who received sex education and prevention efforts during middle and high school timeframe. Participants in the study discussed their perspectives …
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Reproductive decisions among couples with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: a descriptive qualitative study of a sample from Bulawayo
Men and woman of reproductive age are the largest group infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Zimbabwe. Over 70% of the reported HIV/AIDS cases in Zimbabwe are among the 20-29 year age group. The purpose of this exploratory study was to explore and describe the impact of being HIV …
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Factors associated with Contraceptive Use in a rural area in the Western Cape, South Africa
… effective contraceptive use can improve women's reproductive health. Although the contraceptive prevalence rate in South Africa is comparable to rates globally, the distribution is inequitable and marginalises poor and rural women. This study aimed at identifying factors associated with …
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Gay Men and Surrogacy: Navigating Boundaries in the Procreative Realm
… has often been conceptualised as a women’s reproductive concern whilst relatively little is known about men’s reproductive desires, reproductive decision making and reproductive experiences. Gay men have specifically been represented as uninterested in children and parenting, yet an …
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Weak information flow challenging reproductive management decision-making along the swine reproductive value chain: three manuscripts
… factors for this improvement, especially in reproductive traits. Others suggest that genetic management lags other areas of management in terms of efficiency gains because results in the nucleus herds’ environment are difficult to replicate in a commercial herd environment. Part of this …
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Women's empowerment: fertility intentions and family planning practices in Mozambique
… the relationship between empowerment and women's reproductive health the findings are inconclusive. This work aimed to answer the research question of how women's empowerment influences the reproductive choices of women of reproductive age in Mozambique. Using a mixed methods approach, the study …
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“You kind of just have to give up on that dream”: Saskatchewan women’s and men’s experiences with fertility gaps
… circumstances that affected their child-related decisions. For example, women and men often expressed an openness to situations that they felt were beyond their control (e.g., romantic relationship formation) and came to accept timing and number gaps despite alternative preferences. Participants …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Health in Developing Countries
… how the quasi-experimental introduction of reproductive and family planning services affects the fertility behavior of different socio-economic groups in a rural African setting. We combine a quasi-experimental introduction of reproductive and family planning services in the Kassena-Nankana …
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Making Sense of a Loss: Masculinities and Assisted Conception in Contemporary Iran
… very few Muslim countries in which assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), including the use of donor gametes and embryos, have been partly regulated by the state through their Increasing Population Policies and, more significantly, have been widely legitimised by religious authorities. …
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Future fears: Discrimination, parental worries, and the role of social support from a partner
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01