Ann Biddlecom
Biographic Data
| ID | 120911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Biddlecom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Biddlecom |
| SIGNATURE | BIDDLECOM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guttmacher Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9385-2592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 421 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Health Transitions and the Rise of Modern Contraceptive Prevalence: Demand, Access, and Choice
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 h…
Setting Health Targets Using Information from Probabilistic Projections: A Research Brief on an Application to Contraceptive Coverage
Broad and aspirational targets to meet health service needs are useful for advocacy, but setting measurable, time-defined targets for accelerated yet feasible progress is necessary for national monitoring and planning purposes. Information from probabilistic projections of health outcomes and service coverage can be used to set country-specific targets that reflect different starting points and rates of change. We show the utility of this approac…
Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: Report of the Guttmacher– Lancet Commission
Setting Ambitious yet Achievable Targets Using Probabilistic Projections: Meeting Demand for Family Planning
In 2015, governments adopted 17 internationally agreed goals to ensure progress and well‐being in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. These new goals present a challenge for countries to set empirical targets that are ambitious yet achievable and that can account for different starting points and rates of progress. We used probabilistic projections of family planning indicators, based on a global data se…
Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future Fertility Change in sub‐Saharan Africa
Fertility decline in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa has thus far started later and proceeded more slowly than in countries in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean undergoing the transition in fertility since the 1950s from high levels to near-replacement or even below-replacement levels (Bongaarts and Casterline 2013). Yet there is considerable variation among countries in sub-Saharan Africa: in the duration and magnitude of fertility d…
Does Knowledge About Antiretroviral Therapy and Mother-to-Child Transmission Affect the Relationships Between Hiv Status and Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Use? New Evidence From Nigeria and …
The increasing availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and drug regimens to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) has probably changed the context of childbearing for people living with HIV. Using data from 2009–2010 community-based surveys in Nigeria and Zambia, this study explores whether women's knowledge about ART and PMTCT influences the relationship between HIV status and fertility preferences and contraceptive behaviour. The fi…
National, regional, and global rates and trends in contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning between 1990 and 2015: A systematic and comprehensive analysis
Induced Abortion in Colombia: New Estimates and Change Between 1989 and 2008
CONTEXT: Although abortion was made legal in Colombia under selected circumstances in 2006, no national studies have examined whether the incidence of the procedure has changed since the previous estimate in 1989. METHODS: Data on the number of women treated for abortion complications were obtained from a nationally representative survey of 300 public and private health facilities, and estimates of the likelihood that women obtaining abortions ex…
The More Things Change: The Relative Importance of the Internet as a Source of Contraceptive Information for Teens
Teens Reflect on Their Sources of Contraceptive Information
Based on semistructured interviews with a racially and ethnically diverse sample of 58 U.S. high school students, this study examines teens’ exposure to contraceptive information from a range of sources and the extent to which they trust this information. Teens report exposure to contraceptive information from many individuals and places, most commonly school, family, and friends. Few teens rely on the Internet for contraceptive information, and …
Social organization and the transition from direct to indirect consumption
Role of Parents in Adolescent Sexual Activity And Contraceptive Use in Four African Countries
Parents have an influence on the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents,but evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa is limited.A better understanding of the relationship between different dimensions of parenting and recent sexual activity and contraceptive use is needed in the region
Associations Between Premarital Sex and Leaving School in Four Sub‐Saharan African Countries
With the spread of formal schooling in sub‐Saharan Africa and delays in the age at marriage, a growing proportion of adolescents remain enrolled in school when they “come of age.” As a consequence, more and more adolescents have to negotiate sexual maturation and sexual initiation in a vastly different context from that of prior generations. Using data from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Ugan…
Sexual Behavior, Knowledge and Information Sources of Very Young Adolescents in Four Sub-Saharan African Countries
Adolescents are a key target group for HIV and pregnancy prevention efforts, yet very little is known about the youngest adolescents: those under age 15. New survey data from 12-14 year olds in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda are used to describe their sexual activity, knowledge about HIV, STIs and pregnancy prevention, and sources of sexual and reproductive health information, including sex education in schools. Results show that very you…
Prevalence and Meanings of Exchange of Money or Gifts for Sex in Unmarried Adolescent Sexual Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa
Using national survey data collected in 2004 in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda with 12-19 year olds, we examine the prevalence of sex in exchange for money or gifts in the 12 months prior to the survey and its association with adolescents' social and economic vulnerability and condom use. Receiving something in exchange for sex is very common among sexually active, unmarried female adolescents and there are no significant differences by …
Family Planning, Abortion, and Reproductive Health
Many societies have made the transition from high mortality and large family sizes to settings where most children survive, small families are desired, and most people control their fertility. In the early 1960s, the average woman could expect to have almost five children over her life, but now she can expect to have fewer than three children. The conscious use of contraception and abortion to control fertility thus assumes paramount importance i…
Environmental Effects on Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Reproductive Behavior in Nepal
Special Reviewers
Intergenerational transfers of resources between older persons and extended kin in Taiwan and the Philippines
This study examines the extent to which older generations actively exchange resources with extended kin in Taiwan and the Philippines. It is critical to understand the position of older generations in the family, because population ageing and declines in family size spur concerns about the tenacity of family support. This research builds upon previous studies that have predominantly focused on parent-child relationships alone or on support receiv…
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
Transfers from Older Parents to Their Adult Children in Taiwan and the Philippines
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Roderic Beaujot, Earning and Caring in Canadian Families Gareth Dale And Mike Cole (eds.), The European Union and Migrant Labour Andrew Dobson (ed.), Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice Jean Drèze (ed.), The Economics of Famine James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca (eds.), America's Demographic Tapestry: Baseline for the New Millennium Robert D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy…
Absent and Problematic Men: Demographic Accounts of Male Reproductive Roles
Both men and women are important actors in bringing children into life, yet demographic studies on reproduction have tended to focus on women alone. The aims of this article are: 1) to describe why men have attracted limited interest as subjects of such research; 2) to evaluate existing research on men's roles in developing countries; and 3) to suggest directions for future research on male reproductive roles. Men, once neglected, are now include…
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
The association of migration with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented, yet the social and behavioral mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. Using data from the 1993 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, this article examines whether migrants are more likely than nonmigrants to have multiple recent sexual partners and not use condoms with those partners. Results indicate that migration is a critical factor in hi…
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
Absent and Problematic Men: Demographic Accounts of Male Reproductive Roles
Both men and women are important actors in bringing children into life, yet demographic studies on reproduction have tended to focus on women alone. The aims of this article are: 1) to describe why men have attracted limited interest as subjects of such research; 2) to evaluate existing research on men's roles in developing countries; and 3) to suggest directions for future research on male reproductive roles. Men, once neglected, are now include…
Health Care Utilization, Family Context, and Adaptation Among Immigrants to the United States
We use the 1990 National Health Interview Survey supplement on Family Resources to examine the health care utilization patterns of immigrant and native-born adults in the United States. We modify a standard health care utilization framework by including duration of residence in the United States and measures of immigrant adaptation and family health context to model both the probability and number of physician contacts in the previous year. We fi…
Covert Contraceptive Use: Prevalence, Motivations, and Consequences
Factors Underlying Unmet Need for Family Planning in the Philippines
The prevalence of unmet need for family planning is a primary justification for family planning programs, but the causes of unmet need have not been much explored. This article investigates four explanations for unmet need: (1) as an artifact of inaccurate measurement of fertility preferences and contraceptive practice; (2) as a reflection of weakly held fertility preferences; (3) as a result of women's perceiving themselves to be at low risk of …
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
Associations Between Premarital Sex and Leaving School in Four Sub‐Saharan African Countries
With the spread of formal schooling in sub‐Saharan Africa and delays in the age at marriage, a growing proportion of adolescents remain enrolled in school when they “come of age.” As a consequence, more and more adolescents have to negotiate sexual maturation and sexual initiation in a vastly different context from that of prior generations. Using data from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Ugan…
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
The association of migration with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented, yet the social and behavioral mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. Using data from the 1993 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, this article examines whether migrants are more likely than nonmigrants to have multiple recent sexual partners and not use condoms with those partners. Results indicate that migration is a critical factor in hi…
Environmental Effects on Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Reproductive Behavior in Nepal
Intergenerational transfers of resources between older persons and extended kin in Taiwan and the Philippines
This study examines the extent to which older generations actively exchange resources with extended kin in Taiwan and the Philippines. It is critical to understand the position of older generations in the family, because population ageing and declines in family size spur concerns about the tenacity of family support. This research builds upon previous studies that have predominantly focused on parent-child relationships alone or on support receiv…
Immigration, Naturalization, and Residential Assimilation among Asian Americans in 1980
We investigate the residential assimilation of Asian-origin groups in the U.S., paying particular attention to socioeconomic characteristics, immigrant status, and ethnicity. Our primary goal is to disentangle the competing influence of the last two variables. Data from a special tabulation of the 1980 U.S. census (PUMS-F) allow us to express residential outcomes measured in the aggregate as a function of individual characteristics. We restrict o…
Patterns of Fertility Decline and the Impact of Alternative Scenarios of Future Fertility Change in sub‐Saharan Africa
Fertility decline in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa has thus far started later and proceeded more slowly than in countries in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean undergoing the transition in fertility since the 1950s from high levels to near-replacement or even below-replacement levels (Bongaarts and Casterline 2013). Yet there is considerable variation among countries in sub-Saharan Africa: in the duration and magnitude of fertility d…
Transfers from Older Parents to Their Adult Children in Taiwan and the Philippines
Teens Reflect on Their Sources of Contraceptive Information
Based on semistructured interviews with a racially and ethnically diverse sample of 58 U.S. high school students, this study examines teens’ exposure to contraceptive information from a range of sources and the extent to which they trust this information. Teens report exposure to contraceptive information from many individuals and places, most commonly school, family, and friends. Few teens rely on the Internet for contraceptive information, and …
Social organization and the transition from direct to indirect consumption
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
Health Transitions and the Rise of Modern Contraceptive Prevalence: Demand, Access, and Choice
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 h…
Setting Ambitious yet Achievable Targets Using Probabilistic Projections: Meeting Demand for Family Planning
In 2015, governments adopted 17 internationally agreed goals to ensure progress and well‐being in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. These new goals present a challenge for countries to set empirical targets that are ambitious yet achievable and that can account for different starting points and rates of progress. We used probabilistic projections of family planning indicators, based on a global data se…
Aging trends— the Philippines
Immigration, Naturalization, and Residential Assimilation among Asian Americans in 1980
We investigate the residential assimilation of Asian-origin groups in the U.S., paying particular attention to socioeconomic characteristics, immigrant status, and ethnicity. Our primary goal is to disentangle the competing influence of the last two variables. Data from a special tabulation of the 1980 U.S. census (PUMS-F) allow us to express residential outcomes measured in the aggregate as a function of individual characteristics. We restrict o…
Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints
Health Care Utilization, Family Context, and Adaptation Among Immigrants to the United States
We use the 1990 National Health Interview Survey supplement on Family Resources to examine the health care utilization patterns of immigrant and native-born adults in the United States. We modify a standard health care utilization framework by including duration of residence in the United States and measures of immigrant adaptation and family health context to model both the probability and number of physician contacts in the previous year. We fi…
Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City
Ann E. Biddlecom, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, Special Issue: Diversity and Comparability: International Migrants in Host Countries on Four Continents (Spring, 1995), pp. 274-275
Aging trends— the Philippines
Unsafe abortion in Kenya
Though pregnancy termination is highly restricted in Kenya, induced abortion remains common. Illegal abortion is often unsafe, putting women at risk of death or severe complications. In eastern Africa as a whole, an estimated 14% of all pregnancies end in abortion, and nearly one in five maternal deaths are due to unsafe abortion
Factors Underlying Unmet Need for Family Planning in the Philippines
The prevalence of unmet need for family planning is a primary justification for family planning programs, but the causes of unmet need have not been much explored. This article investigates four explanations for unmet need: (1) as an artifact of inaccurate measurement of fertility preferences and contraceptive practice; (2) as a reflection of weakly held fertility preferences; (3) as a result of women's perceiving themselves to be at low risk of …
Coerced Contraception? Moral and Policy Challenges of Long-Acting Birth Control
IntroductionEllen H. Moskowitz and Bruce Jennings Part I: Overview and Guidelines Long-Acting Contraceptives: Ethical Guidelines for Policymakers and Health Care ProvidersEllen H. Moskowitz, Bruce Jennings, and Daniel Callahan Part II: Long-Acting Contraception in Context 1. Contraceptive Policy and Ethics: Lessons from American HistoryKathleen E. Powderly 2. Long-Acting Contraceptives: Rationale, Current Development and Ethical ImplicationsGeorg…
Covert Contraceptive Use: Prevalence, Motivations, and Consequences
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
Women in Modern Turkish Society: A Reader
This is an interdisciplinary feminist reader about women in modern Turkish society put together by Turkish women scholars. The contributors demonstrate the problems inherent in existing social and economic institutions, the failed promises of education and development programmes, and the media's continuing dissemination of traditional sexual stereotypes. They consider power relationships within families and explore women's political participation
Procreative Man
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
The association of migration with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented, yet the social and behavioral mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. Using data from the 1993 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, this article examines whether migrants are more likely than nonmigrants to have multiple recent sexual partners and not use condoms with those partners. Results indicate that migration is a critical factor in hi…
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Roderic Beaujot, Earning and Caring in Canadian Families Gareth Dale And Mike Cole (eds.), The European Union and Migrant Labour Andrew Dobson (ed.), Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice Jean Drèze (ed.), The Economics of Famine James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca (eds.), America's Demographic Tapestry: Baseline for the New Millennium Robert D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy…
Absent and Problematic Men: Demographic Accounts of Male Reproductive Roles
Both men and women are important actors in bringing children into life, yet demographic studies on reproduction have tended to focus on women alone. The aims of this article are: 1) to describe why men have attracted limited interest as subjects of such research; 2) to evaluate existing research on men's roles in developing countries; and 3) to suggest directions for future research on male reproductive roles. Men, once neglected, are now include…
Transfers from Older Parents to Their Adult Children in Taiwan and the Philippines
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
Environmental Effects on Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Reproductive Behavior in Nepal
Special Reviewers
Intergenerational transfers of resources between older persons and extended kin in Taiwan and the Philippines
This study examines the extent to which older generations actively exchange resources with extended kin in Taiwan and the Philippines. It is critical to understand the position of older generations in the family, because population ageing and declines in family size spur concerns about the tenacity of family support. This research builds upon previous studies that have predominantly focused on parent-child relationships alone or on support receiv…
Sexual Behavior, Knowledge and Information Sources of Very Young Adolescents in Four Sub-Saharan African Countries
Adolescents are a key target group for HIV and pregnancy prevention efforts, yet very little is known about the youngest adolescents: those under age 15. New survey data from 12-14 year olds in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda are used to describe their sexual activity, knowledge about HIV, STIs and pregnancy prevention, and sources of sexual and reproductive health information, including sex education in schools. Results show that very you…
Prevalence and Meanings of Exchange of Money or Gifts for Sex in Unmarried Adolescent Sexual Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa
Using national survey data collected in 2004 in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda with 12-19 year olds, we examine the prevalence of sex in exchange for money or gifts in the 12 months prior to the survey and its association with adolescents' social and economic vulnerability and condom use. Receiving something in exchange for sex is very common among sexually active, unmarried female adolescents and there are no significant differences by …
Family Planning, Abortion, and Reproductive Health
Many societies have made the transition from high mortality and large family sizes to settings where most children survive, small families are desired, and most people control their fertility. In the early 1960s, the average woman could expect to have almost five children over her life, but now she can expect to have fewer than three children. The conscious use of contraception and abortion to control fertility thus assumes paramount importance i…
Sociology (27 works) · Population (25 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Demography (20 works) · Economics (18 works) · Environmental health (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Family planning (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Research methodology (13 works)