Work

Reproductive Health Disparities: A Focus on Family Planning and Prevention among Minority Women and Adolescents

Year: 2013

Type: review

Abstract: Minority women and adolescent females of all races and ethnicities are disproportionately aﬀected by unintended pregnancy in the United States. Adolescents also experience an additional proportion of the burden compared to other age groups, as 82% of pregnancies among women 19 years old and younger are unintended. Moreover, minority and adolescent mothers are at increased risk for having preterm deliveries, low birth weight infants, and other complications. Unintended pregnancy continues to be an important public health problem in the United States, and prevention through family planning is urgently needed. This review presents an overview of the US demographics for unintended pregnancy among both minority and adolescent women and identifies current and past eüorts to reduce unintended pregnancy, specifically among minority and adolescent females, through contraception and family-planning programs.

Source: Global Advances in Health and Medicine

DOI: 10.7453/gahmj.2013.056

Authors: Sadia Haider, Cynthia Stoffel, Geri Donenberg, Stacie Geller

Institution: University of Illinois Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Reproductive Health and Contraception

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development