The Influence of Health Care on Contraceptive Acceptance in Rural Mexico

Potter, Joseph E.; Mojarro, O; Nunez, L

doi:10.2307/1966809

Cited by 19 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Interviews with women suggest that many of these concerns are based on fears that the pill causes cancer and other sickness, direct personal experience with unpleasant side effects produced by modem reversible methods, or knowledge of side effects experienced by others. These findings are consistent with reasons for the discontinuance or non-use of modem reversible methods reported in other studies of contraceptive use among Mexican women (Potter, Mojarro and Nufiez 1987;Folch-Lyon, Macorra and Schearer 1981;Shedlin and Hollerbach 1981; also see Bongaarts and Bruce 1995). …”

Section: Current Knowledge and Approval Of Modern Contraceptive Methodssupporting

confidence: 91%

The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline: Evidence from a Microdemographic Study

Lindstrom¹

1998

Population Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper uses retrospective life history data to assess the impact of family planning services on contraceptive use in a rural Mexican township. Between 1960 and 1990 contraceptive use rose and fertility declined dramatically. Both contraceptive supply and demand factors were influential in these trends. The start of the government-sponsored family planning programme in the late 1970s was associated with a sharp rise in female sterilization and use of the IUD. However, once we controlled for the changing socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the sample, the presence of family planning services had no significant effect on the likelihood that women used modern reversible methods compared to traditional methods. Men and women expressed concerns about the safety of modern methods such as the pill and the IUD. Efforts to increase modern contraceptive use should place greater emphasis on communicating the safety of these methods and improving the quality of services.

show abstract

Section: Current Knowledge and Approval Of Modern Contraceptive Methodssupporting

confidence: 91%

The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline: Evidence from a Microdemographic Study

Lindstrom¹

1998

Population Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…An important of element of the counseling provided to women who had heard rumors about the ineffectiveness or dangerous health consequences of IUD use was to refer them to other women in the community who were using the method successfully (15). In so doing, clinicians helped build the social networks that led to the critical mass of early adopters.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Availability and Use of Postpartum LARC in Mexico and Among Hispanics in the United States

Potter

Hubert²,

White

2016

Matern Child Health J

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objectives In the 1980’s, policy makers in Mexico led a national family planning initiative focused, in part, on postpartum IUD use. The transformative impact of this initiative is not well known, and is relevant to current efforts in the United States (US) to increase women’s use of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). Methods Using six nationally representative surveys, we illustrate the dramatic expansion of postpartum LARC in Mexico and compare recent estimates of LARC use immediately following delivery through 18 months postpartum to estimates from the US. We also examine unmet demand for postpartum LARC among 321 Mexican-origin women interviewed in a prospective study on postpartum contraception in Texas in 2012, and describe differences in the Mexican and US service environments using a case-study with one of these women. Results Between 1987 and 2014, postpartum LARC use in Mexico doubled, increasing from 9% to 19% immediately postpartum and from 13% to 26% by 18 months following delivery. In the US, <0.1% of women used an IUD or implant immediately following delivery and only 9% used one of these methods at 18 months. Among postpartum Mexican-origin women in Texas, 52% of women wanted to use a LARC method at six months following delivery, but only 8% used one. The case study revealed provider and financial barriers to postpartum LARC use. Conclusions Some of the strategies used by Mexico’s health authorities in the 1980s, including widespread training of physicians in immediate postpartum insertion of IUDs, could facilitate women’s voluntary initiation of postpartum LARC in the US. Significance The long history of postpartum LARC in Mexico is little known outside the country. The widespread availability and acceptance of postpartum LARC in Mexico illuminates the potential demand for this service among Mexican-origin women living in the US. Moreover, Mexico’s concerted effort to make LARC available to postpartum women can serve as an example for the US and other countries seeking to expand voluntary access to highly effective contraception.

show abstract

“…Previous research on breastfeeding and contraceptive use has shown that the main determinants of breastfeeding and contraceptive use often act in opposite directions. For example, variables associated with modernization have a negative impact on breastfeeding but positive effects on contraceptive use (Potter, 1987b;Potter et al, 1987a;DaVanzo and Habicht, 1986;Butz, and Da Vanzo, 1981). Therefore, there is a need to investigate the impact of extended breastfeeding beyond PPA has an advantage in extending the birth spacing over the use of other methods of contraception.…”

Section: Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Breastfeeding Vis-À-Vis Contraceptive Use on Birth Spacing in India: A Regional Analysis

Dwivedi

2018

Statistics in Transition New Series

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Birth spacing is one of the important aspects of reproductive health. Therefore, it is felt by demographers that birth spacing needs to be studied from time to time in view of the epidemiological transition taking place worldwide. Using the third round of National Family Health Survey-3 data, the central hypothesis of this paper is to find out the relative advantages of breastfeeding over other methods of contraception among non-sterilized women by using simulative approach of the Cox regression analysis in India and its regions. The results show that if women were not having amenorrhea period and had a high level of breastfeeding, the chance of not having next live birth was only two percent lower than those women who were using spacing methods in India. This pattern was found to be almost similar in all the regions of India except central and southern regions. There is no significant gain in postponing the next live birth has been observed in using the contraceptives than breastfeeding. An effort has also been made to apprise the policymakers of the interrelation between breastfeeding, postpartum amenorrhea, contraceptive use and birth spacing. Nonetheless, policymakers should promote programs that encourage both breastfeeding and contraceptive use. Breastfeeding has direct benefits for infant health in addition to its role in lengthening birth intervals beyond postpartum amenorrhea.

show abstract

The Influence of Health Care on Contraceptive Acceptance in Rural Mexico

Cited by 19 publications

References 11 publications

The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline: Evidence from a Microdemographic Study

The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline: Evidence from a Microdemographic Study

The Availability and Use of Postpartum LARC in Mexico and Among Hispanics in the United States

The Role of Breastfeeding Vis-À-Vis Contraceptive Use on Birth Spacing in India: A Regional Analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About