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The Impact of Freedom on Fertility Decline
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2013
Although fertility decline often correlates with improvements in socioeconomic conditions, many demographers have found flaws in demographic transition theories that depend on changes in distal factors such as increased wealth or education. Human beings worldwide engage in sexual intercourse much more frequently than is needed to conceive the number of children they want, and for [...]
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RISBibTexAPAGlobal warming and reproductive health
International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2012
The largest absolute numbers of maternal deaths occur among the 40–50 million women who deliver annually without a skilled birth attendant. Most of these deaths occur in countries with a total fertility rate of greater than 4. The combination of global warming and rapid population growth in the Sahel and parts of the Middle East [...]
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RISBibTexAPAWhy Bold Policies for Family Planning are Needed Now
Potts M, Weinrib R, Campbell M
Last spring at a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk in Berlin, Melinda Gates used this phrase, “The most transformative thing you can do is to give people access to birth control.” She expressed similar sentiments at the London Summit on Family Planning on July 11, 2012, as did the British Prime Minister David Cameron, and [...]
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RISBibTexAPAGetting family planning and population back on track
Global Health: Science and Practice, 2014
After a generation of partial neglect, renewed attention is being paid to population and voluntary family planning. Realistic access to family planning is a prerequisite for women's autonomy. For the individual, family, society, and our fragile planet, family planning has great power.
Published in Global Health: Science and Practice 2014; 2(2), 145-51.
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RISBibTexAPANew hope: community-based misoprostol use to prevent postpartum haemorrhage
Prata N, Passano P, Bell S, Rowen T, Potts M
Health Policy and Planning, 2013
The wide gap in maternal mortality ratios worldwide indicates major inequities in the levels of risk women face during pregnancy. Two priority strategies have emerged among safe motherhood advocates: increasing the quality of emergency obstetric care facilities and deploying skilled birth attendants. The training of traditional birth attendants, a strategy employed in the 1970s and [...]
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RISBibTexAPAHemoglobin and serum ferritin levels in women using copper-releasing or levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine devices: a systematic review
Background: The use of intrauterine devices as a contraceptive method has been steadily growing in developing countries. Anemia in reproductive-age women is a growing concern in those settings.
Study Design: A systematic review of studies with measured hemoglobin and serum ferritin at baseline and after 1 year of use of copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) [...]
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RISBibTexAPAPrevention of postpartum hemorrhage in low-resource settings: current perspectives
International Journal of Women's Health, 2013
BACKGROUND: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal death in low-income countries and is the primary cause of approximately one-quarter of global maternal deaths. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of PPH prevention interventions, with a particular focus on misoprostol, and the challenges and opportunities that preventing PPH in [...]
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RISBibTexAPAMisoprostol for postpartum hemorrhage prevention at home birth: an integrative review of global implementation experience to date
Smith J, Gubin R, Holston M, Fullerton J, Prata N
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2013
BACKGROUND: Hemorrhage continues to be a leading cause of maternal death in developing countries. The 2012 World Health Organization guidelines for the prevention and management of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) recommend oral administration of misoprostol by community health workers (CHWs). However, there are several outstanding questions about distribution of misoprostol for PPH prevention at home births.
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RISBibTexAPAPopulation and Climate Change: Empowering 100 Million Women
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2013
Meeting the world's need for family planning is a human right and a climate imperative. Wherever women have been given information and access to family planning, birth rates have fallen - even in poor, low-literate societies like Bangladesh or conservative religious countries such as Iran.
Published in The United Nations Climate Change Conference - [...]
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Population and climate change: who will the grand convergence leave behind?
Campbell M, Casterline J, Castillo F, Graves A, Hall T, May J, Perlman D, Potts M, Speidel J, Walsh J, Wehner M, Zulu E
Lancet, 2014
For many developing countries, investments in health have proved a great success. The Lancet Commission “Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation” and the 2014 Gates annual letter envision the possibility of a “grand convergence” by which more countries will have a child mortality rate as low as 15 per 1000 livebirths in 20 [...]
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