Context Youth-friendly family planning services may improve youth reproductive health
outcomes. A systematic review conducted in 2011 was updated in 2016 to incorporate …

Voluntary family planning is a key mainstay of demographic work and population policies.
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) signalled a …

Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is effective and acceptable. However, concern
exists about potential provider bias in LARC promotion. No study has documented …

Purpose The decline in US adolescent fertility has accelerated since 2007. Modeling fertility
change using behavioral data can inform adolescent pregnancy prevention efforts. Methods …

In the last decade-plus, there has been growing enthusiasm for long-acting reversible
contraceptive methods as the solution to unintended pregnancy in the United States …

Objectives. To compare population-based sterilization rates between Latinas/os and non-
Latinas/os sterilized under California's eugenics law. Methods. We used data from 17 362 …

There is a wealth of literature demonstrating the presence of bias throughout the American
health care system. Despite acknowledging such presence, however, little is known about …

Background Measures of contraceptive effectiveness combine technology and user-related
factors. Observational studies show higher effectiveness of long-acting reversible …

Objectives The study examined how clinicians described their patients in relation to their
practices of contraceptive counseling. Study design This qualitative study involved individual …

The United States has abysmal reproductive health indices that, in part, reflect stark
inequities experienced by people of color and those with preexisting medical conditions …