作者
Kazuyo Machiyama, John B Casterline, Joyce N Mumah, Fauzia Akhter Huda, Francis Obare, George Odwe, Caroline W Kabiru, Sharifa Yeasmin, John Cleland
发表日期
2017/12
期刊
Reproductive health
卷号
14
页码范围
1-11
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
Unmet need for family planning points to the gap between women’s reproductive desire to avoid pregnancy and contraceptive behaviour. An estimated 222 million women in low- and middle-income countries have unmet need for modern contraception. Despite its prevalence, there has been little rigorous research during the past fifteen years on reasons for this widespread failure to implement childbearing desires in contraceptive practice. There is demographic survey data on women’s self-reported reasons for non-use, but these data provide limited insight on the full set of possible obstacles to use, and one may doubt the meaningfulness of explanations provided by non-users alone. To rectify this evidence gap, this study will gather extensive information on women’s perceptions of contraception (generic and method-specific) and their past contraceptive experience, and it …
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