Family planning and resilience: associations found in a Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) project in Western Tanzania

Hardee, Karen; Patterson, Kristen P.; Schenck‐Fontaine, Anika; Hess, Sebastiaan; Leisher, Craig; Mutunga, Clive; Margoluis, Cheryl; Honzak, Cara

doi:10.1007/s11111-018-0310-x

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“…This relationship could reduce the situation of vulnerability to which they are exposed, because resilience is a protective factor, in this case, to the assertiveness in the decision making. These results are according to other studies among reproductive health (Hardee et al, 2018) or different positive outcomes including successful aging, lower depression, and longevity (Sarubin et al, 2015;Tomás et al, 2012;Hao et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 87%

Resilience and Reproductive Health Diagnosis in Mexican Indigenous Women

Torres

2020

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Mental Health is a determinant of reproductive mortality and morbidity especially in the developing regions of the world with reproductive health problems. The right to sexual and reproductive health has been enunciated by the United Nations as a goal to be achieved by 2030. However, indigenous women are the most vulnerable population because of the conditions that surround them. A cross-sectional quantitative study was done in the indigenous communities of Mexico to know the resilience and reproductive health diagnosis. A Mexican Resilience Scale, gynaeco-obstetrical clinical history and a reproductive health survey were applied. A total of 180 women participated from which 34.6% and 61.4% of the women used a form of birth control method in their first and last sexual intercourse, respectively. There were statistically significant differences between the three attitudes among reproductive health and the highest levels of resilience (p<0.05). Resilience was seen to have a positive influence on the attitude of indigenous women, reducing the vulnerability among reproductive health.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Resilience and Reproductive Health Diagnosis in Mexican Indigenous Women

Torres

2020

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“…Rights-based family planning decisions are founded upon full, free, and informed choice, through health care services that are available, accessible, acceptable, and of the highest possible quality [89]. The benefits of contraception for maternal and child health, nutrition, economic development, achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, gender equality, resilience, and planetary health are well-established [66,[89][90][91]. For example, meeting the contraceptive and maternal care needs of women in low-and middle-income countries could prevent nearly three quarters of maternal deaths, with similarly dramatic decreases in newborn mortality [85].…”

Section: Improved Sexual and Reproductive Health And Universal Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, meeting the contraceptive and maternal care needs of women in low-and middle-income countries could prevent nearly three quarters of maternal deaths, with similarly dramatic decreases in newborn mortality [85]. Furthermore, there is increasing evidence that family planning decreases vulnerability to environmental shocks and stressors such as flooding, drought, and food and water scarcity, and boosts resilience [86,90].…”

Section: Improved Sexual and Reproductive Health And Universal Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions

Mailloux

Henegan

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The climate crisis threatens to exacerbate numerous climate-sensitive health risks, including heatwave mortality, malnutrition from reduced crop yields, water- and vector-borne infectious diseases, and respiratory illness from smog, ozone, allergenic pollen, and wildfires. Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stress the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change, underscoring the need for more scientific assessment of the benefits of climate action for health and wellbeing. Project Drawdown has analyzed more than 80 solutions to address climate change, building on existing technologies and practices, that could be scaled to collectively limit warming to between 1.5° and 2 °C above preindustrial levels. The solutions span nine major sectors and are aggregated into three groups: reducing the sources of emissions, maintaining and enhancing carbon sinks, and addressing social inequities. Here we present an overview of how climate solutions in these three areas can benefit human health through improved air quality, increased physical activity, healthier diets, reduced risk of infectious disease, and improved sexual and reproductive health, and universal education. We find that the health benefits of a low-carbon society are more substantial and more numerous than previously realized and should be central to policies addressing climate change. Much of the existing literature focuses on health effects in high-income countries, however, and more research is needed on health and equity implications of climate solutions, especially in the Global South. We conclude that adding the myriad health benefits across multiple climate change solutions can likely add impetus to move climate policies faster and further.

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“…The establishment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 (United Nations, 2019) constitutes the most internationally accepted expression of the desired outcomes of sustainabilty policies. Each of these goals will be easier to attain with a stabilized human population on earth (Hardee et al, 2018). This means that hundreds of millions of families will need to make decisions which depart from present fertilty norms in their communities.…”

Section: Two-child Families and Subjective Well-beingmentioning

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Positive psychology as a strategy for promoting sustainable population policies

Tal

Kerret

2020

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Demographic stability constitutes a paramount global environmental objective. Yet, decades of efforts, highlighting the perils of overpopulation, have failed to slow the rapid global population growth. In considering an alternative strategy, insights from the field of positive psychology are explored for their potential to inform future demographic policies. After briefly reviewing sustainable advocacy efforts, different theories behind individual fertility decisions are presented. Following, key components of prominent successful family planning interventions are analysed using a 'positive psychology' perspective. Three 'positive psychology' strategies are explored for their potential to inform sustainable population: a "direct" approach that emphasizes individual benefits rather than indirect gains through mitigation of damages; an emphasis on the convergence between the collective and individual benefits of two-child families; and application of behavioral change theories in demographic policies to better facilitate sustainable individual fertility decisions. The paper posits that a positive psychology conceptualization offers a promising way to re-think the design of demographic policies and frame sustainable population interventions.

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Family planning and resilience: associations found in a Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) project in Western Tanzania

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Resilience and Reproductive Health Diagnosis in Mexican Indigenous Women

Resilience and Reproductive Health Diagnosis in Mexican Indigenous Women

Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions

Positive psychology as a strategy for promoting sustainable population policies

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