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Unintended Pregnancy: Worldwide Levels, Trends, and Outcomes
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The incidence of pregnancy by intention status and outcome at worldwide, regional, and subregional levels for 2008 is estimated, and recent trends since 1995 are assessed.Abstract:
Unintended pregnancy can carry serious consequences for women and their families. We estimate the incidence of pregnancy by intention status and outcome at worldwide, regional, and subregional levels for 2008, and we assess recent trends since 1995. Numbers of births are based on United Nations estimates. Induced abortions are estimated by projecting from recent trends. A model-based approach is used to estimate miscarriages. The planning status of births is estimated using nationally representative and small-scale surveys of 80 countries. Of the 208 million pregnancies that occurred in 2008, we estimate that 41 percent were unintended. The unintended pregnancy rate fell by 29 percent in developed regions and by 20 percent in developing regions. The highest unintended pregnancy rates were found for Eastern and Middle Africa and the lowest for Southern and Western Europe and Eastern Asia. North America is the only region in which overall and unintended pregnancy rates have not declined. We conclude with a brief discussion of global and regional program and policy implications.read more
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Unintended pregnancy in the United States: incidence and disparities, 2006.
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that nearly half (49%) of pregnancies were unintended in 2006, up slightly from 2001 (48%) and the unintended pregnancy rate increased to 52 per 1000 women aged 15-44 years in 2006 from 50 in 2001.
Original research article Unintended pregnancy in the United States: incidence and disparities, 2006
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TL;DR: Efforts to help women and couples plan their pregnancies, such as increasing access to effective contraceptives, should focus on groups at greatest risk for unintended pregnancy, particularly poor and cohabiting women.
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Intended and unintended pregnancies worldwide in 2012 and recent trends.
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Induced abortion: incidence and trends worldwide from 1995 to 2008
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Contraception and health
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The Millennium Development Goals Report
TL;DR: Ban et al. as discussed by the authors stated that the global community cannot turn its back on the poor and the vulnerable, and that the goals are within reach, and even in the very poor countries, with strong political commitment and sufficient and sustained funding.
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Disparities in rates of unintended pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001.
TL;DR: The rate of unintended pregnancy in 2001 was substantially above average among women aged 18-24, unmarried (particularly cohabiting) women, low-income women, women who had not completed high school and minority women, but increased among poor and less educated women.
Fertility, family planning, and reproductive health of U.S. Women: Data from the 2002 national survey of family growth
TL;DR: National estimates of fertility, family planning, and reproductive health indicators among females 15-44 years of age in the United States in 2002 from Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).
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Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic
David A. Grimes,Janie Benson,Susheela Singh,Mariana Romero,Bela Ganatra,Friday Okonofua,Iqbal Shah +6 more
TL;DR: Ending the silent pandemic of unsafe abortion is an urgent public-health and human-rights imperative, and access to safe abortion improves women's health, and vice versa, as documented in Romania during the regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu.
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The effects of unintended pregnancy on infant, child, and parental health: a review of the literature.
TL;DR: A framework for determining and measuring the pathways between unintended pregnancy and future health outcomes is outlined, indicating a need for more studies in developing countries and for further research to assess the impact of unintended pregnancy on parental health and long-term health outcomes for children and families.
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