Amy O Tsui
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1866862 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amy O Tsui |
| PRENOMES | Amy |
| SOBRENOME | O Tsui |
| ASSINATURA | TSUI A O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9158-0503 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 89 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 258 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Predictive utility of key family planning indicators on dynamic contraceptive outcomes
BACKGROUND: Many health and demographic surveys routinely collect information on women’s exposure to family planning (FP) messages, counseling on contraceptive side effects, discussions about FP with providers, contraceptive decision-making autonomy, and the desire for additional children. Several studies have shown significant associations with current contraceptive use status from these cross-sectional data. However, the predictive utility of t…
Missed opportunities for family planning counselling among postpartum women in eleven counties in Kenya
A large proportion of women have missed opportunities for FP/C counselling within 2 years postpartum. Programs should address these missed opportunities
Measuring contraceptive use in India
Indiaâ s National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) have provided critical population-level data to inform public policy and research. Although fertility declined, NFHS-4 (2015â 2016) reported lower modern contraceptive and female sterilization use compared with
Modern contraceptive availability and stockouts
Approximately 214 million women of reproductive age lack adequate access to contraception for their family planning needs, yet patterns of contraceptive availability have seldom been examined. With growing demand for contraceptives in some areas, low contraceptive method availability and stockouts are thought to be major drivers of unmet need among women of reproductive age, though evidence for this is limited. In this research, we examined trend…
A sexual and reproductive empowerment framework to explore volitional sex in sub-Saharan Africa
Volitional sex is central to the sexual health and well-being of women and girls globally. To date, few studies have examined women's empowerment and its application to sexual health outcomes, including volitional sex. The aim of this study was to explore the relevance of a sexual and reproductive empowerment framework to volitional sex across four geographically and culturally diverse contexts in sub-Saharan Africa. Qualitative data were collect…
A Panel Study of Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Dynamics in the Presence of Competing Pregnancy Risks in Uganda
Although many studies have examined the influence of women's fertility preferences on subsequent fertility behavior and the role of contraceptive use intentions on unmet need, very few have explored their concurrent effects on contraceptive use dynamics. This study examines the independent concurrent effects of women's fertility preferences and contraceptive intentions on subsequent adoption and discontinuation, treating pregnancy as a competing …
Is Client Reporting on Contraceptive Use Always Accurate? Measuring Consistency and Change with a Multicountry Study
The consistency of self‐reported contraceptive use over short periods of time is important for understanding measurement reliability. We assess the consistency of and change in contraceptive use using longitudinal data from 9,390 urban female clients interviewed in DR Congo, India, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso. Clients were interviewed in‐person at a health facility and four to six months later by phone. We compared reports of contrace…
Reconceptualizing Women's and Girls' Empowerment
CONTEXT: Improving women's empowerment is pivotal to public health and development programs; however, inconsistent definitions and lack of cross-cultural measures compromise monitoring efforts. METHODS: Data collected in 2017-2018 in Ethiopia, Uganda and two sites in Nigeria were used to develop a cross-cultural index of women's and girls' empowerment in sexual and reproductive health (WGE-SRH). Item development was grounded in qualitative interv…
Covert use of contraception in three sub-Saharan African countries
Results indicate that while covert use of contraception is common, continued covert use is challenging, especially when side effects manifest. Covert use may further suggest women taking independent action, symbolizing some level of empowerment. Results underscore the importance of disentangling unique reasons for covert use and the severity of repercussions of disclosure
I am the master key that opens and locks
The WGE-SRH framework is useful for exploring SRH empowerment, embracing the multilevel, dynamic nature of empowerment, as a process transitioning from existence of choice (autonomy) to exercise of choice (self-efficacy, decision-making, negotiation), and, ultimately, to achievement of choice. Future research and programs related to SRH empowerment should distinguish between existence and exercise of choices to promote the health and well-being o…
Missed Opportunities
Increased global attention is being paid to the importance of adolescent and adult women's experiences of menstruation in low- and middle-income countries, and the challenges these experiences present to health, education and gender equality. Although much of the focus has been on menarche as a window of opportunity for early engagement in young women's sexual and reproductive health, minimal attention has been paid to the natural linkages betwee…
Subnational estimation of modern contraceptive prevalence in five sub-Saharan African countries
Reliable subnational estimates of mCPR empower health departments in evidence-based policy making. Despite nationally increasing mCPRs, regional disparities exist within countries suggesting uneven contraceptive access. Raising investments in disadvantaged areas may be warranted to increase equity in access to modern contraceptive methods
Quality of Contraceptive Use and Women’s Paid Work and Earnings in Peri-Urban Ethiopia
Economic and reproductive empowerment mutually reinforce each other. However, while many studies have examined the importance of economic empowerment for reproductive empowerment, few have investigated the reverse relationship, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study uses retrospective contraceptive-use history and panel data from two time points from a peri-urban community in Ethiopia to explore the impact of quality of contraceptive use as…
Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
The individual impacts of several components of family planning service quality on contraceptive use have been studied, but the influence of a composite measure synthesizing these components has not been often investigated. We (1) develop a composite score for family planning service quality based on health facility data from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and (2) examine the influence of structural quality on contraceptive practice in …
Understanding the meaning of marital relationship quality among couples in peri-urban Ethiopia
This study explores the meaning of marital relationship quality (MRQ) among couples in peri-urban Ethiopia. We examined the factor structure of MRQ by assessing the reliability and validity of four validated Western scales capturing domains of trust, commitment, satisfaction and communication through exploratory factor analysis. Although most of the items of the original Western scales were relevant for the study population, the domains did not m…
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Contraceptive Practice in sub-Saharan Africa
Forty eight of the African continent's 54 sovereign states are located in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, with the government of each defining and shaping its own health services and delivery systems. This paper reviews the trends and patterns of contraceptive practice in the region. Using survey data available from the Demographic and Health Surveys and Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020, the study finds modern contraceptive pra…
Maternal Risk Exposure and Adult Daughters’ Health, Schooling, and Employment
This study analyzes the relationships between maternal risk factors present at the time of daughters' births-namely, young mother, high parity, and short preceding birth interval-and their subsequent adult developmental, reproductive, and socioeconomic outcomes. Pseudo-cohorts are constructed using female respondent data from 189 cross-sectional rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 50 developing countries between 1986 and 2013. G…
Access to Contraceptives in Countries With Restrictive Abortion Laws
We aimed to determine whether current contraceptive use is affected by a history of abortion for women from a country with abortion-restricted laws. This is an analysis of 2006 Brazil Demographic and Health Survey. Nonpregnant women whose first pregnancy occurred in the previous 5 years were selected for this study (n = 2,181). We used propensity score matching to compare current contraceptive use among women with induced or spontaneous abortion …
Amy Ong Tsui reviews The Birth of the Pill
Pilot study of home-based delivery of HIV testing and counseling and contraceptive services to couples in Malawi
Home-based CHCT and CFP were very successful in this pilot study with high proportions of previously untested husbands and wives accepting CHCT and there were virtually no negative outcomes within one week. This study supports the need for further research and testing of home- and couple-based approaches to expand access to HCT and contraceptive services to prevent the undesired consequences of sexually transmitted infection and unintended pregna…
Use of Dual Protection Among Female Sex Workers in Swaziland [
CONTEXT: Female sex workers are at heightened risk of both HIV infection and unwanted pregnancy. Nonbarrier modern contraceptives are highly effective at preventing pregnancy, but offer no HIV protection. A better understanding of sex workers' use of condoms and nonbarrier methods is needed to help them meet their contraceptive and STI protection needs. METHODS: A 2011 respondent-driven sampling survey collected reproductive health and contracept…
Maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use
Contraception and health
Effect of depressive symptoms and social support on weight and CD4 count increase at HIV clinic in Ethiopia
Studies have reported an inverse relationship between depressive symptoms and weight and CD4 gain and a positive association between social support and weight and CD4 gain. The main objective of this study was to explore the effect of depressive symptoms and perceived social support on weight change and CD4 cell progression in an HIV clinic in Ethiopia. The study design was descriptive cross-sectional, with a sample of 1815 HIV-infected adults ag…
Changing living arrangements
This paper analyzes movements among household types. Persons in one household may join another type. Correspondingly, a household’s structure may change when someone joins it. Data are from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, spanning 1968–1980. The individuals followed in the survey generated spells analyzed with a multivariate competing risk hazard model. We develop a map of the flow among household types and of the economic and demographic pr…
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Contextual Influences on Reproductive Health Service Use in Uttar Pradesh, India
This study examines the determinants of the use of four types of reproductive health‐care services in Uttar Pradesh, India: contraceptive services, antenatal care, delivery in a medical institution, and services dealing with reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections. The analysis uses a multilevel modeling strategy to assess the presence of household‐ and community‐level variation in service use. The influence of community‐level char…
Contraceptive Practice in sub-Saharan Africa
Forty eight of the African continent's 54 sovereign states are located in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, with the government of each defining and shaping its own health services and delivery systems. This paper reviews the trends and patterns of contraceptive practice in the region. Using survey data available from the Demographic and Health Surveys and Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020, the study finds modern contraceptive pra…
Reproductive Health Service Preferences And Perceptions of Quality Among Low‐Income Women
Efforts to reduce racial, ethnic and language group differences in clients' perceptions of reproductive health service quality should focus on improving client-clinician communication, the service environment and contraceptive counseling. Future research should continue to assess group differences and try to determine their underlying causes
I am the master key that opens and locks
The WGE-SRH framework is useful for exploring SRH empowerment, embracing the multilevel, dynamic nature of empowerment, as a process transitioning from existence of choice (autonomy) to exercise of choice (self-efficacy, decision-making, negotiation), and, ultimately, to achievement of choice. Future research and programs related to SRH empowerment should distinguish between existence and exercise of choices to promote the health and well-being o…
Policy as Symbolic Statement
Journal Article Policy as Symbolic Statement: International Response to National Population Policies Get access Deborah Barrett, Deborah Barrett University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct correspondence to Deborah Barrett, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Amy Ong Tsui Amy Ong Tsui University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Marriage Timing in Sri Lanka
Modernization theory argues that a shift occurs from family to individual orientation which leads to later marriages. This study argues that in Sri Lanka modern and traditional value orientation are intertwined and that social change is not a linear process of shifts from one set of traditional norms to another modern set of norms. Findings from event history analysis reveal that family organization interests and culture remain central to the iss…
The Dilemma of Past Success
Many observers believe that the international family planning movement has played a significant role in reducing fertility levels and slowing population growth in the developing world. Yet the perceived success of family planning programs recently has led some researchers to formulate questions about their relevance and future place on the development policy agenda. Within a framework derived from the sociological literature on social movements, …
Maternal and sociodemographic correlates of child morbidity in Bas Zaire
Rumor, misinformation and oral contraceptive use in Egypt
Is Client Reporting on Contraceptive Use Always Accurate? Measuring Consistency and Change with a Multicountry Study
The consistency of self‐reported contraceptive use over short periods of time is important for understanding measurement reliability. We assess the consistency of and change in contraceptive use using longitudinal data from 9,390 urban female clients interviewed in DR Congo, India, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso. Clients were interviewed in‐person at a health facility and four to six months later by phone. We compared reports of contrace…
Husbands' Reproductive Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior in Uttar Pradesh, India
To enhance the reproductive health status of couples in developing countries, the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of both women and men must be investigated, especially where women depend on men for the decision to seek care. This study analyzes data from a survey of 6,727 husbands from five districts in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Data are presented on men's knowledge of women's health and on their own sexual behavior outside …
The Family Formation Process Among U.S. Marriage Cohorts
The family formation process is viewed as the progression of women through first marriage, first, subsequent, and last births and is examined for differential patterns of timing in 1930–1969 marriage cohorts. Based on the childbearing histories of approximately 17,000 white women once and still married, extracted from the June 1975 Current Population Survey, the study uses a dynamic model to show the varying importance across cohorts of the first…
Contextual Influences on Reproductive Wellness in Northern India
Objectives. There has been a growing recognition of the importance of contextual influences on health outcomes. This article examines community-level influences on 5 reproductive wellness outcomes in Uttar Pradesh, India. Methods. Multilevel modeling is used to estimate household and community-level effects on wellness, with hierarchically organized data from a statewide survey of villages, urban blocks, households, women, health providers, and s…
Pregnancy avoidance and coital behavior
This study proposes a behavioral model that identifies determinants of coital activity in the context of pregnancy avoidance and assesses the relationships using weekly panel data collected on 300 rural married women in Sri Lanka in 1988. We discuss the utility of the design, which is similar to that of an epidemiological surveillance system, for the measurement of coital behavior and pregnancy risk perceptions. Perceptions of pregnancy risk, spo…
A Panel Study of Family-Level Structural Change
A substantial shift in the composition of families and households in the US occurred during the 1970s. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1968 to 1979 the authors identify sources of the change in aggregate distribution and examine year-to-year transitions among family types. This analysis provides a perspective that differs from cross-sectional and life-course comparisons. Calculations of net increments and decrements to each family t…
"A Reply to Paul Demeny's "On the End of the Population Explosion
The point needs to be made that the personalized tenor of Paul Demenys critique is considered inappropriate and the intention in this reply is to discern the nature of the disagreement and how it can best be resolved. In his critique Demeny denies the 3 following propositions that are reaffirmed in this discussion: 1) birthrates in developing nations have declined faster than demographers had expected; 2) the scope and intensity of organized fami…
Adolescents can know best
Community Availability of Contraceptives and Family Limitation
This study examines the impact of contraceptive service availability on contraceptive use in Korea, Mexico, and Bangladesh. Using World Fertility Survey Data on once-married females and their communities of residence, the mutivariate analysis finds that the community level of contraceptive availability directly affects the likelihood of current use, net of the effects of community development, education, parity, and marital duration. The results …
Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
The individual impacts of several components of family planning service quality on contraceptive use have been studied, but the influence of a composite measure synthesizing these components has not been often investigated. We (1) develop a composite score for family planning service quality based on health facility data from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and (2) examine the influence of structural quality on contraceptive practice in …
Women's Perspectives on Family Planning Service Quality
Future surveys of family planning service quality should include measures of the factors that women value in such care, and efforts to improve providers' communication and counseling skills should emphasize the personalization of services and respect for clients' autonomy
Contraceptive Discontinuation and Failure and Subsequent Abortion in Romania
This study examines the levels and correlates of contraceptive failure and discontinuation in Romania, together with the consequences of contraceptive method failure in terms of induced abortion. Of special interest are women who rely on the traditional method of withdrawal and the proportion of withdrawal failures resulting in abortion. Our analysis is based on multiyear calendar data concerning women's contraceptive use and monthly reproductive…
Determinants of contraceptive switching behavior in rural Sri Lanka
This study examines the influence of a selected set of determinants of contraceptive method switching in rural Sri Lanka. Of interest is the question of how change in contraceptive practice at the individual level can account for patterns observed at the aggregate level. Based on calendar data on contraceptive use over a 3-year period, collected for more than 3,000 married women in a 1986 survey, the multivariate analysis shows that women who att…
Contraceptive Availability Differentials in Use and Fertility
Amy Ong Tsui, Dennis P. Hogan, Carlos Welti-Chanes, Jay D. Teachman, Contraceptive Availability Differentials in Use and Fertility, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 12, No. 11 (Nov., 1981), pp. 381-393
"A Reply to Paul Demeny's "On the End of the Population Explosion
The point needs to be made that the personalized tenor of Paul Demenys critique is considered inappropriate and the intention in this reply is to discern the nature of the disagreement and how it can best be resolved. In his critique Demeny denies the 3 following propositions that are reaffirmed in this discussion: 1) birthrates in developing nations have declined faster than demographers had expected; 2) the scope and intensity of organized fami…
Determinants of Fertility in Advanced Societies
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States. Ronald R. Rindfuss , James A. Sweet
Community Availability of Contraceptives and Family Limitation
This study examines the impact of contraceptive service availability on contraceptive use in Korea, Mexico, and Bangladesh. Using World Fertility Survey Data on once-married females and their communities of residence, the mutivariate analysis finds that the community level of contraceptive availability directly affects the likelihood of current use, net of the effects of community development, education, parity, and marital duration. The results …
Contraceptive Availability Differentials in Use and Fertility
Amy Ong Tsui, Dennis P. Hogan, Carlos Welti-Chanes, Jay D. Teachman, Contraceptive Availability Differentials in Use and Fertility, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 12, No. 11 (Nov., 1981), pp. 381-393
The Family Formation Process Among U.S. Marriage Cohorts
The family formation process is viewed as the progression of women through first marriage, first, subsequent, and last births and is examined for differential patterns of timing in 1930–1969 marriage cohorts. Based on the childbearing histories of approximately 17,000 white women once and still married, extracted from the June 1975 Current Population Survey, the study uses a dynamic model to show the varying importance across cohorts of the first…
Perceived Availability of Contraceptives and Family Limitation
This paper deals with the relationship between perceived contraceptive availability/accessibility and contraceptive use and fertility. It is hypothesized that women who perceive contraceptive services to be available and easily accessible will be more likely to use contraception, will have lower levels of unmet demand for contraception, and will experience decreased levels of childbearing. Data from the Korean and Mexican World Fertility Surveys …
Rumor, misinformation and oral contraceptive use in Egypt
A Panel Study of Family-Level Structural Change
A substantial shift in the composition of families and households in the US occurred during the 1970s. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1968 to 1979 the authors identify sources of the change in aggregate distribution and examine year-to-year transitions among family types. This analysis provides a perspective that differs from cross-sectional and life-course comparisons. Calculations of net increments and decrements to each family t…
Changing living arrangements
This paper analyzes movements among household types. Persons in one household may join another type. Correspondingly, a household’s structure may change when someone joins it. Data are from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, spanning 1968–1980. The individuals followed in the survey generated spells analyzed with a multivariate competing risk hazard model. We develop a map of the flow among household types and of the economic and demographic pr…
Thailand's Reproductive Revolution
Maternal and sociodemographic correlates of child morbidity in Bas Zaire
Contraceptive method change among rural Sri Lankan women
Patterns of contraceptive method change and their association with reproductive motivation and contraceptive failure are examined using data from a 1986 survey of family planning behaviour of rural Sinhalese married women aged 15–44 in seventeen districts of Sri Lanka. A notable degree of rationality in contraceptive method changes occurs with family formation. The attempt to control unwanted fertility leads to more efficacious use of contracepti…
The dynamics of contraceptive use
For nearly three decades men and women have increasingly gained the opportunity to control their childbearing with modern contraceptive technologies. In the early 1960s when oral hormonal contraceptives and intrauterine devices first became publicly available in the United States and Europe, the total fertility rate (TFR) in industrialized countries was about 2·7 implying that two-thirds of childbearing couples, some 87 million, were practising c…
A Study of infant mortality and causes of death in a rural north-east Brazilian community
In 1984 a prospective study of 1645 women and 1677 births in a rural community in north-eastern Brazil showed the infant mortality rate to be 65 per 1000 live births. Neonatal, post-neonatal and infant mortality are analysed to determine the most important risk factors for each period. Post-neonatal survival depends largely on factors relating to child care, while neonatal deaths are more likely to be associated with biological factors. The princ…
Determinants of contraceptive switching behavior in rural Sri Lanka
This study examines the influence of a selected set of determinants of contraceptive method switching in rural Sri Lanka. Of interest is the question of how change in contraceptive practice at the individual level can account for patterns observed at the aggregate level. Based on calendar data on contraceptive use over a 3-year period, collected for more than 3,000 married women in a 1986 survey, the multivariate analysis shows that women who att…
Pregnancy avoidance and coital behavior
This study proposes a behavioral model that identifies determinants of coital activity in the context of pregnancy avoidance and assesses the relationships using weekly panel data collected on 300 rural married women in Sri Lanka in 1988. We discuss the utility of the design, which is similar to that of an epidemiological surveillance system, for the measurement of coital behavior and pregnancy risk perceptions. Perceptions of pregnancy risk, spo…
Ethnic differentials in child-spacing ideals and practices in Ghana
Postpartum sexual abstinence may be a major determinant of fertility and of maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the relationship between ethnicity and abstinence using data from the 1988 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. There is considerable diversity in the length of abstinence although only for one ethnic group, the Mole-Dagbani and other Ghanaians, is abstinence, both actual and ideal, very long. Respondent…
Curbing Population Growth
Marriage Timing in Sri Lanka
Modernization theory argues that a shift occurs from family to individual orientation which leads to later marriages. This study argues that in Sri Lanka modern and traditional value orientation are intertwined and that social change is not a linear process of shifts from one set of traditional norms to another modern set of norms. Findings from event history analysis reveal that family organization interests and culture remain central to the iss…
Curbing Population Growth
Reproduction, Risk and Reality
In collaboration with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning, a study was conducted in 1994 in two Vietnamese communes to provide community level information on women's reproductive health and behaviors. A survey of 504 rural and 523 urban women collected five-year histories of reproduction, contraception, abortion and symptoms of Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI). This analysis focuses on the relationships between women's in…
Husbands' Reproductive Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior in Uttar Pradesh, India
To enhance the reproductive health status of couples in developing countries, the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of both women and men must be investigated, especially where women depend on men for the decision to seek care. This study analyzes data from a survey of 6,727 husbands from five districts in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Data are presented on men's knowledge of women's health and on their own sexual behavior outside …
Reproductive Health in Developing Countries
Sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, infertility, and other reproductive problems are a growing concern around the world, especially in developing countries. Reproductive Health in Developing Countries describes the magnitude of these problems and what is known about the effectiveness of interventions in the following areas: Infection-free sex. Immediate priorities for combating sexually transmitted and reproductive tract diseas…
Sexual Behaviors and Reproductive Health Outcomes
CONTEXT: Wife abuse has been associated with a variety of health concerns. Associations between abuse and reproductive health in India are not well known. OBJECTIVE: To examine relationships between men's reports of wife abuse and reproductive health issues in northern India. DESIGN: Structured face-to-face interviews were conducted as part of the male reproductive health supplement of the PERFORM System of Indicators Survey, a systematic multist…
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