Reproductive health, the Arab world and the internet: usage patterns of an Arabic-language emergency contraception web site

Foster, Angel M.; Wynn, L. L.; Rouhana, Aida; Polis, Chelsea B.

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2005.03.003

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“…Only Tunisia has legalised abortion on demand, and unsafe induced abortion is reported elsewhere in the region. Emergency contraception is currently licensed in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen 14. Young people, however, are not widely informed about its availability (A Foster, Ibis Reproductive Health, personal communication).…”

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Reproductive health of Arab young people

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El-Khoury²

2006

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Reproductive health of Arab young people

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El-Khoury²

2006

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“…For a discussion of the linguistic and cultural translation entailed in creating the Arabic version of the website, see Foster, Wynn, Rouhana, Polis, and Trussell 2005. …”

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Would you say you had unprotected sex if …? Sexual health language in emails to a reproductive health website

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Foster

2010

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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The words and metaphors that people use to describe sexuality and reproductive health reflect experiences with peers, sexual partners, health service providers, and public health campaigns. In this paper, we analyse 1,134 e-mails sent to an emergency contraception website in the USA over the course of a one year period. Through an examination of the terminology used by authors to describe contraceptive methods, sexual intercourse and other sexual acts, we analyse what those terms signify within their textual context. We find that the kinds of risk concerns used in assessing sexual activity – whether evaluating pregnancy risk, disease transmission risk, or moral risk – influence the definitions people give to terms that are multiply defined or whose definitions are culturally contested. This finding emerged clearly in the meanings given to terms for “sex” and “unprotected sex,” which varied widely. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of this finding for research, clinical care, and health education activities.

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“…A study indicated that awareness of women in Arab world regarding emergency contraception methods was very low [54]. Another study indicated that in contrast to English EC website users, the users of Arabic EC web sites were interested in the different aspects of EC than English website users [55]. The authors of the study suggested that there is a need for creating culturally specific EC website content for health education [55].…”

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Worldwide research productivity in emergency contraception: a bibliometric analysis

Sweileh

Zyoud

Al-Jabi

et al. 2015

Fertil Res and Pract

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BackgroundThe main goal of this study was to assess worldwide research activity in emergency contraception (EC) using bibliometric indicators.MethodsData in SciVerse Scopus were searched for documents pertaining to emergency contraception. Data obtained were then exported to Microsoft Excel and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences.ResultsA total of 2142 documents were published about EC worldwide. Documents were written in 27 different languages and were published from 78 countries. Publications in EC started on late 1960s. Total number of citations for published EC documents was 30154 while median citation per document was six. The h-index of the retrieved documents was 58. The leading country in EC research was United States of America with a total of 559 documents (26.10%). One hundred and ninety five (9.10%) documents were published in Contraception journal. The leading institution in EC research and publications was Princeton University (50; 2.33%) followed by University of California, San Francisco (34; 1.59%).ConclusionsThe present data revealed that there is a worldwide increasing interest in EC research. Willingness of health policy makers to make EC accessible to the public will determine the future of EC research activity and future of EC as a contraceptive method.

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Reproductive health, the Arab world and the internet: usage patterns of an Arabic-language emergency contraception web site

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

Reproductive health of Arab young people

Reproductive health of Arab young people

Would you say you had unprotected sex if …? Sexual health language in emails to a reproductive health website

Worldwide research productivity in emergency contraception: a bibliometric analysis

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