Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior.

We examine the impact of recent state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher-income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise. We show that the income-based policy change reduced overall births to non-teens by about 2% and to teens by over 4%; estimates suggest a decline of 9% among newly eligible women. The reduc...

Contraception and Sexual Life

towards the doctor-patient relationship with less formality and more spontaneity. Thoughtful actions and understandings replaced routine procedures.' And the author remarks that, 'by applying a psychotherapeutic approach to the gynaecological transactions in a contraceptive clinic, more fruitful results were obtained than by purely gynaecological skills or purely psychological and emotional cou...

Indicators of Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Sexual Behavior

Sexual Esteem in Emerging Adulthood: Associations with Sexual Behavior, Contraception Use, and Romantic Relationships.

Sexual esteem is an integral psychological aspect of sexual health (Snell & Papini, 1989 ), yet it is unclear whether sexual esteem is associated with sexual health behavior among heterosexual men and women. The current analysis used a normative framework for sexual development (Lefkowitz & Gillen, 2006 ; Tolman & McClelland, 2011 ) by examining the association of sexual esteem with sexual beha...

Personal fertility monitors for contraception.

discovered the synthetic progestin used in the first birth control pill, expressed concern about existing contraceptive methods and predicted fertility awareness and family planning through biochemical measurement of endogenous hormones at home. Today, multiple fertility monitors are available that provide couples with accurate biochemical measurement of the fertile window to plan or avoid preg...