Unintended pregnancy: a framework for prevention and options for midlife women in the US

Recently unintended pregnancies have been described as "a new kind of mid-life crisis." Given the high prevalence of unwanted or mistimed pregnancy in the US, we examined the sexual and reproductive health patterns of sexually active midlife women. An examination of the prevalence of unint...

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Autores principales: Johnson-Mallard, Versie, Kostas-Polston, Elizabeth A., Woods, Nancy Fugate, Simmonds, Katherine E., Alexander, Ivy M., Taylor, Diana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30766709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40695-017-0027-5
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description Recently unintended pregnancies have been described as "a new kind of mid-life crisis." Given the high prevalence of unwanted or mistimed pregnancy in the US, we examined the sexual and reproductive health patterns of sexually active midlife women. An examination of the prevalence of unintended pregnancy among midlife women revealed a gap in data indicating unmet sexual and reproductive health needs of midlife women. The application of a framework for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention for unintended pregnancy may assist with guiding care for women and identifying implications for reproductive health policy and potential political interference as they relate to sexual and reproductive health in midlife women.
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spelling pubmed-62999522019-02-14 Unintended pregnancy: a framework for prevention and options for midlife women in the US Johnson-Mallard, Versie Kostas-Polston, Elizabeth A. Woods, Nancy Fugate Simmonds, Katherine E. Alexander, Ivy M. Taylor, Diana Womens Midlife Health Commentary Recently unintended pregnancies have been described as "a new kind of mid-life crisis." Given the high prevalence of unwanted or mistimed pregnancy in the US, we examined the sexual and reproductive health patterns of sexually active midlife women. An examination of the prevalence of unintended pregnancy among midlife women revealed a gap in data indicating unmet sexual and reproductive health needs of midlife women. The application of a framework for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention for unintended pregnancy may assist with guiding care for women and identifying implications for reproductive health policy and potential political interference as they relate to sexual and reproductive health in midlife women. BioMed Central 2017-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6299952/ /pubmed/30766709 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40695-017-0027-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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