Contraception for women: an evidence based overview
| Autor: | Tripathi, Amy Jj |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Counseling
medicine.medical_specialty Evidence-based practice Service delivery framework medicine.medical_treatment Contraceptives Oral Hormonal medicine Humans Drug Interactions Emergency contraception Natural family planning General Environmental Science Gynecology business.industry General Engineering General Medicine Evidence-based medicine Infant mortality Contraceptives Oral Combined Contraception Family planning Family medicine Pill General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female Progestins business Contraception Barrier Intrauterine Devices |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 339:b2895-b2895 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.b2895 |
| Popis: | Summary points Contraception allows parents to choose the number and spacing of children. Each year, family planning programmes prevent an estimated 187 million unintended pregnancies, including 60 million unplanned births and 105 million abortions, and avert an estimated 2.7 million infant deaths and 215 000 pregnancy related deaths.1 The prevalence of contraceptive use differs across the world owing to differences in desired number of children, awareness, funding, and service delivery, with an overall prevalence of use worldwide of 63%. Female sterilisation and intrauterine devices account for nearly 40% in less developed regions, and pills, intrauterine devices, and condoms for the same proportion in more developed regions.2 This article reviews evidence based information on contraceptive methods currently available for women. #### Sources and selection criteria We prepared this review by searching Cochrane reviews, PubMed, and our personal archives of references. ### Counselling Counselling is thought to enable clients to make contraceptive choices that best fit their values and needs; it should lead to greater satisfaction and more correct and longer use of contraception, particularly when partners are involved. However, a Cochrane review of randomised controlled trials that acknowledged heterogeneity between studies found … |
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