The concept of unintended pregnancy has been essential to demographers in seeking to understand fertility, to public health practitioners in preventing unwanted childbear-ing and to both groups in promoting a woman's ability to determine whether and when to have children. Accurate measurement of pregnancy intentions is important in understanding fertility-related behaviors, forecasting fertilit...

Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Evaluative Clinical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Center for Leading Injury Prevention Practice Education & Rese...

background: the increase in the prevalence of cesarean section (c-section) in recent decades has become a public health problem worldwide. studies of cesarean section in order to identify the causes and form policies and interventions to reduce the incidence of this health problem are necessary. this study was conducted with the aim to investigate the causes of c-sections performed at niknafs a...

Introduction: Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is an essential service to prevent unwanted pregnancies, keep birth spacing, thus preventing poor maternal, perinatal, and neonatal health outcomes in subsequent pregnancies. Objectives: To identify the reasons for not accepting PPFP actual percentage of first 48 hours as well most preferred method PPFP, interval contraceptive a tertiary care hosp...

background: pregnancy is often considered as a stressful period with physiological and psychological variations. these changes may reduce quality of life in many women. the present study was aimed to determine the quality of life in pregnant women referred to health centers of izeh city, central iran. methods: a descriptive and analytical study carried out on 300 pregnant women who had referred...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to describe levels of pregnancy and contraceptive usage among a cohort of street-based female sex workers (FSWs) in Vancouver. METHODS The study sample was obtained from a community-based prospective cohort study (2006-2008) of 211 women in street-based sex work who use drugs, 176 of whom had reported at least one prior pregnancy. Descriptive statist...

Conclusions sections should be more focused indicating a few of the recommended strategies in the article which should be implemented to improve family planning in Ethiopia. As it is now, it is highly general. Conclusion part refined and made more focussed as per the specific findings. It reads now as “The study found a relatively high prevalence of unintended childbirth in Ethiopia and this im...

OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of pregnancy and outcome in teenagers in areas of different socioeconomic conditions, and to assess the implication for achievement of government and local targets in reducing unwanted pregnancies in teenagers. DESIGN Records of pregnancies were obtained from hospital discharge files and rates of live and still births and abortions calculated for each postcode ...

Unintended pregnancy refers to unwanted, unplanned, or mistimed pregnancies. One-half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, and family physicians are often asked to provide counseling, support, and resources for women with unintended pregnancies. Options include carrying the infant to term and raising the child, carrying the infant to term and choosing adoption, or having an i...