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States and community health centers could do a better job of removing access barriers to oral contraceptives, according to the results of a new study. Only a small percentage of states and community health centers provide patients with a one-year supply of oral contraceptives on site.
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The results of two recent studies suggest benefits for adolescents who receive contraceptive services through school-based health centers in Oregon. Contraceptive Technology Update asked lead author Emily R. Boniface, MPH, research associate in Oregon Health and Science University’s department of obstetrics and gynecology, to answer questions about the new research.
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A survey of OB/GYN residents revealed a significant difference in exposure to placement of intrauterine devices (IUDs) based on whether they were working as residents in states that expanded Medicaid vs. states that did not. The responses revealed those who worked in university programs in states that accepted Medicaid expansion inserted more IUDs and received more experience with immediate postpartum IUD training than did those in states that did not expand Medicaid.
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Teen birth rates have fallen in recent years, but the rate in the United States is higher than in other high-income countries, including the Netherlands and all Scandinavian countries. The U.S. teen birth rate is 16.7 births per 1,000 teens — 73% lower than the peak in 1991. In Norway, the teen birth rate is 2.8 births per 1,000 teens.
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In recent years, studies have shown the benefits of same-day contraception access. But practice has not always caught up with research.
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Only one in 10 patients who received a recent positive pregnancy test reported their reproductive health provider discussed all pregnancy options at clinics in a Southern publicly funded family planning system, researchers noted. The patients whose providers mentioned all pregnancy options were more likely to rate their counseling as excellent on all items, compared with patients who did not receive information on all options.
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New research highlights the challenges many reproductive health providers and family planning clinics faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include discontinuation of services, such as placing long-acting reversible contraception and prescribing emergency contraceptive pills in advance.
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Ubiquitous employee temperature screening and symptom questions upon entry during the pandemic have not yielded much success in identifying sick healthcare workers or reducing the long-standing problem of presenteeism. The reasons workers come to work sick are complex.
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Despite a historically mild flu season in 2019-2020, followed by the most recent mild season in the Southern Hemisphere, public health officials are warning of a possible severe flu outbreak on the horizon.
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A physician shares details about his journey back to patient-focused care, which was inspired partly by an epiphany he experienced with a comatose child.
