Ayodele Odutayo, David Cherney,* Judith Miller, Sofia B. Ahmed, Vesta Lai, Sheila Dunn, Nicole Pun, Rahim Moineddin, and Michelle A. Hladunewich* Division of Nephrology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Department of Fami...

*Correspondence [email protected] Department of preventive medicine, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Department of preventive medicine, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, [email protected] ABSTRACT Background: Prevention of unintended pregnancy among HIV positive women is the second component of “global plan” that can reduce the desperate st...

How did the study come about? In 1982, a birth cohort study was initiated in Pelotas, a Southern Brazilian city with a current population of 323 000 inhabitants. It started as a perinatal survey and later became one of the largest and longest running birth cohorts in the developing world. With the success of this initial study, our group decided to propose a second birth cohort, to be launched ...

Background & aim: Despite the success of family planning programs in Iran in the recent decades, considerable proportions of pregnancies are still unintended and can be a cause of poor mental and physical health of the mother and child. The aim of this study was to investigate some important factors affecting uplanned pregnancies among married women in Semnan province, one of the developed prov...

1 Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 2 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 3 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 4 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston...

The lack of access to contraceptives and poor control over their own pregnancies represented a major problem for women 100 years ago. An unwanted pregnancy could lead to social exclusion and loss of paid work, and clandestine births and infanticide thus posed a social problem. A review of the archives of the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine in the period 1910 to 1912 shows that one-fifth of...

BACKGROUND Zambia experienced declining aggregate fertility and increasing aggregate contraceptive use from 1990 to 2000. Yet, in rural Zambia, progress in family planning has lagged far behind the advances made in Zambia's urban areas. The contraceptive prevalence rate in Lusaka and other urban areas outstripped the rate in rural Zambia by nearly 25 percentage points (41.2 percent versus 16.6 ...

CONTEXT Vietnam has experienced a rapid fertility decline over the last three decades, yet fertility rates vary considerably across the country's 54 ethnic groups. METHODS Data were drawn from the 2001 Vietnam National Health Survey, which collected information from 27,097 currently married women aged 15-49 on their birth and abortion history over the preceding five years, as well as their cu...

This chapter estimates the burden of disease attributable to non-use of contraception and use of ineffective methods. The health outcomes include obstetric complications and abortion-related morbidity and mortality associated with unintended pregnancies (unwanted and mistimed). We have presented a model for linking data on contraceptive use and fertility preferences to unwanted births and unsaf...

objective: to examine the relationship between socioeconomic factors affecting contraceptive use among tribal women of bangladesh with focusing on son preference over daughter. materials and methods: the study used data gathered through a cross sectional survey on four tribal communities resided in the rangamati hill district of the chittagong hill tracts, bangladesh. a multistage random sampli...