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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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RISBibTexAPAThe Sahel: A Malthusian Challenge?
Potts M, Henderson C, Campbell M
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2013
The population of the least developed countries of the Sahel will more than triple from 100 million to 340 million by 2050, and new research projects that today's extreme temperatures will become the norm by mid-century. The region is characterized by poverty, illiteracy, weak infrastructure, failed states, widespread conflict, and an abysmal status of women. [...]
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RISBibTexAPAThe impact of vouchers on the use and quality of health care in developing countries: a systematic review
Brody C, Bellows N, Campbell M, Potts M
One approach to delivering healthcare in developing countries is through voucher programmes, where vouchers are distributed to a targeted population for free or subsidised health care. Using inclusion/exclusion criteria, a search of databases, key journals and websites review was conducted in October 2010. A narrative synthesis approach was taken to summarise and analyse five outcome [...]
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RISBibTexAPARwanda PPH Misoprostol Flipchart
Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) operations research project in Rwanda using the local Kinyarwanda language.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIIntroducing Misoprostol for the Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care and VSI conducted an operations research to address maternal deaths associated with postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). This brief provides strong evidence that introducing misoprostol as an alternative uterotonic when oxytocin is not available can effectively expand uterotonic coverage to women delivering in health facilities.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIPopulation 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 - [...]
Rwanda PAC Women’s Educational Booklet
Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postabortion care (PAC) operations research project in Rwanda using the local Kinyarwanda language.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIExpanding Access to Postabortion Care in Zimbabwe through Integration of Misoprostol
This brief summarizes the final results from a collaborative postabortion care (PAC) operations research led by the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care and VSI. The results demonstrate that misoprostol, a safe and effective treatment option for incomplete abortion and miscarriage, brings PAC services closer to women in need at all levels of the health system.
For the brief in French, click here.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIMeeting Rural Demand: A Case for Combining Community-Based Distribution and Social Marketing of Injectable Contraceptives in Tigray, Ethiopia
Prata N, Weidert K, Fraser A, Gessessew A
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, policy changes have begun to pave the way for community distribution of injectable contraceptives but sustaining such efforts remains challenging. Combining social marketing with community-based distribution provides an opportunity to recover some program costs and compensate workers with proceeds from contraceptive sales. This paper proposes a model for increasing access [...]
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Les grandes questions meritent des responses audacieuses: la population et le changement climatique au Sahel
Potts M, Graves A
African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2013
Certaines régions d’Afrique ont la croissance démographique la plus rapide du monde. Des études récentes menées par les climatologues indiquent que dans les prochaines décennies, les zones écologiquement vulnérables de l’Afrique, y compris le Sahel, seront exposées aux effets néfastes les plus sévères du réchauffement climatique. La menace qui pèse sur certaines régions de l’Afrique [...]
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