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Health Transitions and the Rise of Modern Contraceptive Prevalence: Demand, Access, and Choice
Population and development review, v 50(S2), pp 571-595
28 Sep 2024
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Abstract
Abstract Improvements in health and mortality, known as the health transition, played important roles in the rise of modern contraceptive prevalence across countries. We describe key mechanisms and selected research evidence that show how health transitions helped shape contraceptive transitions around the world. Mechanisms include how decreases in child mortality rates affect the motivation to use contraception and how the organization and expansion of health care affect key barriers to contraceptive use. Substantial increases in child survival resulting from health transitions increase demand for deliberate fertility regulation and contraceptive use. Improved access to primary health care, particularly maternal and child health services and expansion into rural communities, was associated with increases in modern method use. Country‐specific policies that affected the organization and delivery of health care led to the dominance of particular modern methods in some countries. Empirical evidence is limited on how the quality of health care has affected aggregate level increases in modern method use. Using modern contraceptive prevalence to define the contraceptive transition reflects current data limitations but future research on the relationship of health transitions with macrolevel contraceptive prevalence trends may be able to incorporate more comprehensive aspects of how health transitions impact contraceptive choice and agency.
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- Title
- Health Transitions and the Rise of Modern Contraceptive Prevalence: Demand, Access, and Choice
- Creators
- Jamaica CorkerAnn BiddlecomMohammad Jalal Abbasi-ShavaziAlex EzehRodolfo Gómez Ponce de León (Corresponding Author)
- Publication Details
- Population and development review, v 50(S2), pp 571-595
- Publisher
- Wiley; HOBOKEN
- Number of pages
- 25
- Grant note
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: INV-009201
The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions from Nathalie Sawadogo and John Casterline on an earlier version and the thoughtful reviews and comments from two anonymous reviewers. This work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under grant INV-009201. The views expressed by authors who are staff members of the Pan American Health Organization are solely their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the organization.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001321470900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85205128392
- Other Identifier
- 991021906085104721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Demography
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