The List Experiment for Measuring Abortion: What We Know and What We Need
Abstract
Measuring abortion incidence and prevalence is often difficult because of under‐reporting and other biases, complicated research designs, and other issues. Recently, family planning researchers have introduced a new method called the list experiment, adopted from political science and economics, to measure abortion. Three completed studies and at least four studies currently underway use this method to measure abortion in several countries. We discuss the lessons learned from completed studies, when the list experiment may and may not be appropriate, and open questions regarding the use of the list experiment fo...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Heidi Moseson, Emily Treleaven, Caitlin Gerdts, Nadia Diamond ‐Smith Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Aligning Funding and Need for Family Planning: A Diagnostic Methodology
This article proposes an ordinal ranking framework to identify under‐prioritized countries by rank‐ordering countries by their need for family planning and separately rank‐ordering them by their development assistance for family planning. Countries for which the rank of the need for family planning is lower than the rank of its funding are deemed under‐prioritized. We implement this diagnostic methodology to identify under‐prioritized countries that have a higher need but lower development assistance for family planning. This approach indicates whether a country is receiving less compared to other countries with ...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Victoria Y. Fan, Sunja Kim, Seemoon Choi, Karen A. Gr épin Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Providers, Unmarried Young Women, and Post ‐Abortion Care in Kenya
This study shows how providers’ distinctive emphasis that young abortion care‐seekers are to blame for their own difficulties in accessing PAC may add to the ongoing crisis of post‐abortion care for young women and adolescent girls in Kenya. (Source: Studies in Family Planning)
Source: Studies in Family Planning - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Carolyne P. Egesa, Caroline W. Kabiru, Estelle M. Sidze Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
PMA2020: Rapid Turn ‐Around Survey Data to Monitor Family Planning Service and Practice in Ten Countries
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Source: Studies in Family Planning - June 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Linnea Zimmerman, Hannah Olson, , Amy Tsui, Scott Radloff Tags: DATA PAPER Source Type: research
Reproductive Health and Bodily Integrity in Tanzania
Several policy initiatives support the empowerment of women to improve their reproductive health. Little is known, however, about the inverse effect that reproductive health might have on women's empowerment. Women are pressured to conform to their reproductive role, and an inability to do so might affect their empowerment, including control over their own body. Using a panel dataset of 504 married women in Northern Tanzania, we find that women who experienced a pregnancy loss show more tolerant views of partner violence and that child mortality lowers their perceived control over the sexual relationship with their spouse....
Source: Studies in Family Planning - June 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Judith Westeneng, Ben D'Exelle Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Foreseeable Harms of Trump's Global Gag Rule
As one of his first acts as President of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating a version of the global gag rule. Under this rule, US grantees are barred from receiving global health funding if they engage in abortion‐related work: not only abortion services, but also abortion referrals and counseling or advocacy for the liberalization of abortion laws. Critics of the Trump global gag rule generally raise three classes of objections: (1) that the rule fails to accomplish its presumed objective of reducing the number of abortions; (2) that it negatively affects the health and well‐being of...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - June 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer, Patty Skuster Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
How the Community Shapes Unmet Need for Modern Contraception: An Analysis of 44 Demographic and Health Surveys
Unmet need for modern contraception is a major public health concern in resource‐constrained countries. Recent research supports the application of social‐ecological theories to explain how characteristics of a woman's community shape modern contraception use. However, this research focuses largely on individual countries and uses a limited number of community‐level effects. We fitted three random‐effects logistic regression models to examine associations between 13 community‐level variables and the odds of reporting unmet need, unmet need for spacing, and unmet need for limiting for all parous, female respondent...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - June 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nicholas Metheny, Rob Stephenson Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Evaluation of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) Program
This article presents results of the impact evaluation of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI). Findings are based on recently collected longitudinal data from women and facilities in six cities in Nigeria. Over the four‐year follow‐up period, there was an increase of about ten percentage points in modern method use. Impact evaluation analyses using fixed‐effects regression methods indicate that both demand‐ and supply‐side program activities increased modern method use. Radio, television, community events, and living near program‐enrolled health facilities all significantly increased moder...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - June 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Setting Ambitious yet Achievable Targets Using Probabilistic Projections: Meeting Demand for Family Planning
We present the web‐based Family Planning Estimation Tool (FPET) enabling national decision makers to compute and assess targets for meeting family planning demand. (Source: Studies in Family Planning)
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Vladim íra Kantorová, Jin Rou New, Ann Biddlecom, Leontine Alkema Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Current Status of Research on the Integration of Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV Services
This article builds on the growing body of research on integrated sexual SRH and HIV services. It brings together critical reviews on issues within the wider SRH and rights agenda and synthesizes recent research on integrated services, drawing on the Integra Initiative and other major research. Unintended pregnancy and HIV are intrinsically interrelated SRH issues, however broadening the constellation of services, scaling up, and mainstreaming integration continue to be challenging. Overcoming stigma, reducing gender‐based violence, and meeting key populations’ SRH needs are critical. Health systems research using SRH ...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charlotte E. Warren, Susannah H. Mayhew, Jonathan Hopkins Tags: INTRODUCTION Source Type: research
Impact of Integrated Services on HIV Testing: A Nonrandomized Trial among Kenyan Family Planning Clients
The impact of integrated reproductive health and HIV services on HIV testing and counseling (HTC) uptake was assessed among 882 Kenyan family planning clients using a nonrandomized cohort design within six intervention and six “comparison” facilities. The effect of integration on HTC goals (two tests over two years) was assessed using conditional logistic regression to test four “integration” exposures: a training and reorganization intervention; receipt of reproductive health and HIV services at recruitment; a functional measure of facility integration at recruitment; and a woman's cumulative exposure to functiona...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 1, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kathryn Church, Charlotte E. Warren, Isolde Birdthistle, George B. Ploubidis, Keith Tomlin, Weiwei Zhou, James Kimani, Timothy Abuya, Charity Ndwiga, Sedona Sweeney, Susannah H. Mayhew, Tags: SPECIAL ISSUE Source Type: research
Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating Health Service Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in Low ‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Comparative Health Systems and Service Analysis
This systematic review synthesizes 11 studies of health‐sector responses to intimate partner violence (IPV) in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The services that were most comprehensive and integrated in their responsiveness to IPV were primarily in primary health and antenatal care settings. Findings suggest that the following facilitators are important: availability of clear guidelines, policies, or protocols; management support; intersectoral coordination with clear, accessible on‐site and off‐site referral options; adequate and trained staff with accepting and empathetic attitudes toward survivors of IPV; in...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 1, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Manuela Colombini, Colleen Dockerty, Susannah H. Mayhew Tags: SPECIAL ISSUE Source Type: research
Meeting the Reproductive Health Needs of Female Key Populations Affected by HIV in Low ‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Review of the Evidence
Female sex workers and other women at high risk of acquiring HIV have the right to sexual and reproductive health, including the right to determine the number and timing of pregnancies. We conducted a literature review to examine the data that exist regarding the family planning and reproductive health needs of female key populations, the underlying determinants of these populations’ vulnerability to poor reproductive health outcomes, and the obstacles they face in accessing high‐quality reproductive health services. Findings indicate that female key populations experience high rates of unmet need for family planning a...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 1, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nicole B. Ippoliti, Geeta Nanda, Rose Wilcher Tags: SPECIAL ISSUE Source Type: research
