Lawrence B Finer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1732248 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lawrence B Finer |
| PRENOMES | Lawrence B |
| SOBRENOME | Finer |
| ASSINATURA | FINER L B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Guttmacher Institute |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 546 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Contraceptive Failure in the United States
These broad-based declines in failure rates reverse a long-term pattern of minimal change. Future research should explore what lies behind these trends, as well as possibilities for further improvements
Declines in Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 2008–2011
BACKGROUND: The rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States increased slightly between 2001 and 2008 and is higher than that in many other industrialized countries. National trends have not been reported since 2008. METHODS: We calculated rates of pregnancy for the years 2008 and 2011 according to women's and girls' pregnancy intentions and the outcomes of those pregnancies. We obtained data on pregnancy intentions from the National Survey …
Adolescent Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates Across Countries
PURPOSE: To examine pregnancy rates and outcomes (births and abortions) among 15- to 19-year olds and 10- to 14-year olds in all countries for which recent information could be obtained and to examine trends since the mid-1990s. METHODS: Information was obtained from countries' vital statistics reports and the United Nations Statistics Division for most countries in this study. Alternate sources of information were used if needed and available. W…
Unintended pregnancy and the changing demography of American women, 1987-2008
BACKGROUND: In 1987, the U.S. unintended pregnancy rate was 59 per 1,000 women aged 15-44; the rate fell to 54 in 2008. Over this period, American women experienced dramatic demographic shifts, including an aging population that was better educated and more racially and ethnically diverse. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explain trends in unintended pregnancy and understand what factors contributed most strongly to changes in rates over time, focus…
Trends in Ages at Key Reproductive Transitions in the United States, 1951–2010
The large majority of the reproductive years are spent sexually active. Thus, women have a lengthy period during which they require effective methods. In particular, the period between first sex and first childbearing has lengthened, but long-acting method use, although increasing, has not kept up with this shift. Moving the contraceptive method mix toward underutilized but highly effective contraceptive methods has the potential to reduce the un…
Shifts in Intended and Unintended Pregnancies in the United States, 2001–2008
Objectives. We monitored trends in pregnancy by intendedness and outcomes of unintended pregnancies nationally and for key subgroups between 2001 and 2008. Methods. Data on pregnancy intentions from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and a nationally representative survey of abortion patients were combined with counts of births (from the National Center for Health Statistics), counts of abortions (from a census of abortion providers), es…
Sexual Initiation, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy Among Young Adolescents
OBJECTIVE: To present new data on sexual initiation, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among US adolescents aged 10 to 19, and to compare the youngest adolescents' behaviors with those of older adolescents. METHODS: Using nationally representative data from several rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth, we performed event history (ie, survival) analyses to examine timing of sexual initiation and contraceptive use. We calculated adolescent…
Changes in use of long-acting contraceptive methods in the United States, 2007–2009
Variation in State Unintended Pregnancy Rates In the United States
State programs and policies should pay particular attention to increasing support for family planning services for minority groups. Findings also suggest that insurance coverage and receipt of Medicaid among women of reproductive age deserve further exploration as potentially important mechanisms for reducing state unintended pregnancy rates
Young Adults' Contraceptive Knowledge, Norms and Attitudes
Programs to increase young adults' knowledge about contraceptive methods and use are urgently needed. Given the demonstrated link between method knowledge and contraceptive behaviors, such programs may be useful in addressing risky behavior in this population
Unintended pregnancy in the United States
Associations Between Perceived Partner Support and Relationship Dynamics With Timing of Pregnancy Termination
Perceived and Insurance-Related Barriers to the Provision of Contraceptive Services in U.S. Abortion Care Settings
Unintended Pregnancy Rates at the State Level
These rates provide benchmarks for measuring the impact on unintended pregnancy of state policies and practices, such as those governing sex education and the funding of contraceptive services
The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies
Public insurance programs are central in assisting American families in affording pregnancy and childbirth; however, they pay for a disproportionately high number of births resulting from unintended pregnancy. The resulting budgetary impact warrants increased public efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
Examining the association of abortion history and current mental health
Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions
Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 3,032 pregnancies). Factor analyses identified two key dimensions of pregnancy intentions (desire and mistiming) and two smaller nondimensional categories …
Abortion in the United States
The numbers of abortions and the abortion rate continued their long-term decline through 2005. Reasons for this trend are unknown but may include improved access to and use of contraceptives or decreased access to abortion services
Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954–2003
OBJECTIVES: Policy and programmatic efforts promoting sexual abstinence until marriage have increased, but it is unclear whether establishing such behavior as normative is a realistic public health goal. This study examined the proportion of individuals in various cohorts who had had premarital sex (defined as either having had vaginal intercourse before first marrying or ever having had intercourse and never having married) by various ages. METH…
U.S. Women’s One‐Year Contraceptive Use Patterns, 2004
Strategies for reducing gaps in contraceptive use include improved counseling to help women both choose the right method and continue method use, especially when they have periods of infrequent sexual activity or are experiencing method-related side effects or problems
Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use and Nonuse, United States, 2004
Providers could better help women avoid unintended pregnancy by initiating regular assessments of method use difficulties, improving counseling on method choice and pregnancy risk, and identifying and assisting women at higher risk for inconsistent method use because of disadvantage, relationship characteristics or ambivalence about pregnancy prevention. In addition to providers' efforts, broader societal commitment is critical for increasing con…
Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States
Objectives. We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States. Methods. We used data from 1995 and 2002 for women 15 to 19 years of age to develop 2 indexes: the contraceptive risk index, summarizing the overall effectiveness of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents (including nonuse), and the overall pregnancy r…
Santelli Et Al. Respond
We thank Mann and Stine for their interest in our recent article. We examined data on sexual activity and contraceptive use from the National Survey on Family Growth (NSFG) and found that most of the declines in US adolescent pregnancy from 1995 to 2002 could be attributed to improved contraceptive use: for 77% of the decline among those aged 15-17 years and for all of the decline among those aged 18-19 years. The methodological improvement in ca…
Timing of steps and reasons for delays in obtaining abortions in the United States
Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy In the United States, 1994 and 2001
CONTEXT: Many pregnancies are unintended, particularly in certain population groups. Determining whether unintended pregnancy rates and disparities in rates between subgroups are changing may help policymakers target reproductive health services to those women most in need. METHODS: To calculate rates of unintended pregnancy and related outcomes, data on pregnancy intendedness from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth were combined with birt…
Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy In the United States, 1994 and 2001
CONTEXT: Many pregnancies are unintended, particularly in certain population groups. Determining whether unintended pregnancy rates and disparities in rates between subgroups are changing may help policymakers target reproductive health services to those women most in need. METHODS: To calculate rates of unintended pregnancy and related outcomes, data on pregnancy intendedness from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth were combined with birt…
Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use and Nonuse, United States, 2004
Providers could better help women avoid unintended pregnancy by initiating regular assessments of method use difficulties, improving counseling on method choice and pregnancy risk, and identifying and assisting women at higher risk for inconsistent method use because of disadvantage, relationship characteristics or ambivalence about pregnancy prevention. In addition to providers' efforts, broader societal commitment is critical for increasing con…
Shifts in Intended and Unintended Pregnancies in the United States, 2001–2008
Objectives. We monitored trends in pregnancy by intendedness and outcomes of unintended pregnancies nationally and for key subgroups between 2001 and 2008. Methods. Data on pregnancy intentions from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and a nationally representative survey of abortion patients were combined with counts of births (from the National Center for Health Statistics), counts of abortions (from a census of abortion providers), es…
Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions
Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 3,032 pregnancies). Factor analyses identified two key dimensions of pregnancy intentions (desire and mistiming) and two smaller nondimensional categories …
Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions
Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States
Objectives. We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States. Methods. We used data from 1995 and 2002 for women 15 to 19 years of age to develop 2 indexes: the contraceptive risk index, summarizing the overall effectiveness of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents (including nonuse), and the overall pregnancy r…
Abortion in the United States
The numbers of abortions and the abortion rate continued their long-term decline through 2005. Reasons for this trend are unknown but may include improved access to and use of contraceptives or decreased access to abortion services
Young Adults' Contraceptive Knowledge, Norms and Attitudes
Programs to increase young adults' knowledge about contraceptive methods and use are urgently needed. Given the demonstrated link between method knowledge and contraceptive behaviors, such programs may be useful in addressing risky behavior in this population
Abortion Incidence and Services in the United States in 2000
Nearly half of unintended pregnancies and more than one-fifth of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion. No nationally representative statistics on abortion incidence or on the universe of abortion providers have been available since 1996.In 2001-2002, The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) conducted its 13th survey of all known U.S. abortion providers, collecting information for 1999, 2000 and the first half of 2001. Trends were calcu…
Contraceptive Failure in the United States
These broad-based declines in failure rates reverse a long-term pattern of minimal change. Future research should explore what lies behind these trends, as well as possibilities for further improvements
U.S. Women’s One‐Year Contraceptive Use Patterns, 2004
Strategies for reducing gaps in contraceptive use include improved counseling to help women both choose the right method and continue method use, especially when they have periods of infrequent sexual activity or are experiencing method-related side effects or problems
Examining the association of abortion history and current mental health
Abortion Incidence and Services In the United States in 2000
Abortion incidence and the number of abortion providers continued to decline during the late 1990s but at a slower rate than earlier in the decade. Medical abortion began to play a small but significant role in abortion provision
Unintended Pregnancy Rates at the State Level
These rates provide benchmarks for measuring the impact on unintended pregnancy of state policies and practices, such as those governing sex education and the funding of contraceptive services
The Accessibility of Abortion Services in the United States, 2001
Abortion at very early and late gestations and early medical abortion are more available than before, but charges have increased and antiabortion picketing remains at high levels. Thus, many women still face substantial barriers to obtaining an abortion
U.S. Agencies Providing Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services in 1999
Agencies offering contraceptive services also offer a wide range of reproductive health and related services. There remain services for which provision could be increased and policies that need to be modified to facilitate clients' access to contraceptive care
The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies
Public insurance programs are central in assisting American families in affording pregnancy and childbirth; however, they pay for a disproportionately high number of births resulting from unintended pregnancy. The resulting budgetary impact warrants increased public efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
The Accessibility of Abortion Services In the United States, 2001
Abortion services are provided in hospitals, doctors' offices and various types of clinics, but about two-thirds of procedures are performed in specialized abortion clinics. While this system appears to work well for most women, some women seeking abortion face obstacles related to distance, cost, harassment and special medical conditions. Nine percent of nonhospital abortion patients must travel more than 100 miles and 18 percent travel 50 to 10…
Unintended pregnancy and the changing demography of American women, 1987-2008
BACKGROUND: In 1987, the U.S. unintended pregnancy rate was 59 per 1,000 women aged 15-44; the rate fell to 54 in 2008. Over this period, American women experienced dramatic demographic shifts, including an aging population that was better educated and more racially and ethnically diverse. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explain trends in unintended pregnancy and understand what factors contributed most strongly to changes in rates over time, focus…
Variation in State Unintended Pregnancy Rates In the United States
State programs and policies should pay particular attention to increasing support for family planning services for minority groups. Findings also suggest that insurance coverage and receipt of Medicaid among women of reproductive age deserve further exploration as potentially important mechanisms for reducing state unintended pregnancy rates
Services for Men at Publicly Funded Family Planning Agencies, 1998-1999
U.S. Agencies Providing Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services in 1999
Agencies offering contraceptive services also offer a wide range of reproductive health and related services. There remain services for which provision could be increased and policies that need to be modified to facilitate clients' access to contraceptive care
The Accessibility of Abortion Services In the United States, 2001
Abortion services are provided in hospitals, doctors' offices and various types of clinics, but about two-thirds of procedures are performed in specialized abortion clinics. While this system appears to work well for most women, some women seeking abortion face obstacles related to distance, cost, harassment and special medical conditions. Nine percent of nonhospital abortion patients must travel more than 100 miles and 18 percent travel 50 to 10…
The Accessibility of Abortion Services in the United States, 2001
Abortion at very early and late gestations and early medical abortion are more available than before, but charges have increased and antiabortion picketing remains at high levels. Thus, many women still face substantial barriers to obtaining an abortion
Services for Men at Publicly Funded Family Planning Agencies, 1998-1999
Abortion Incidence and Services In the United States in 2000
Abortion incidence and the number of abortion providers continued to decline during the late 1990s but at a slower rate than earlier in the decade. Medical abortion began to play a small but significant role in abortion provision
Abortion Incidence and Services in the United States in 2000
Nearly half of unintended pregnancies and more than one-fifth of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion. No nationally representative statistics on abortion incidence or on the universe of abortion providers have been available since 1996.In 2001-2002, The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) conducted its 13th survey of all known U.S. abortion providers, collecting information for 1999, 2000 and the first half of 2001. Trends were calcu…
Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions
Timing of steps and reasons for delays in obtaining abortions in the United States
Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy In the United States, 1994 and 2001
CONTEXT: Many pregnancies are unintended, particularly in certain population groups. Determining whether unintended pregnancy rates and disparities in rates between subgroups are changing may help policymakers target reproductive health services to those women most in need. METHODS: To calculate rates of unintended pregnancy and related outcomes, data on pregnancy intendedness from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth were combined with birt…
Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954–2003
OBJECTIVES: Policy and programmatic efforts promoting sexual abstinence until marriage have increased, but it is unclear whether establishing such behavior as normative is a realistic public health goal. This study examined the proportion of individuals in various cohorts who had had premarital sex (defined as either having had vaginal intercourse before first marrying or ever having had intercourse and never having married) by various ages. METH…
U.S. Women’s One‐Year Contraceptive Use Patterns, 2004
Strategies for reducing gaps in contraceptive use include improved counseling to help women both choose the right method and continue method use, especially when they have periods of infrequent sexual activity or are experiencing method-related side effects or problems
Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use and Nonuse, United States, 2004
Providers could better help women avoid unintended pregnancy by initiating regular assessments of method use difficulties, improving counseling on method choice and pregnancy risk, and identifying and assisting women at higher risk for inconsistent method use because of disadvantage, relationship characteristics or ambivalence about pregnancy prevention. In addition to providers' efforts, broader societal commitment is critical for increasing con…
Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States
Objectives. We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States. Methods. We used data from 1995 and 2002 for women 15 to 19 years of age to develop 2 indexes: the contraceptive risk index, summarizing the overall effectiveness of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents (including nonuse), and the overall pregnancy r…
Santelli Et Al. Respond
We thank Mann and Stine for their interest in our recent article. We examined data on sexual activity and contraceptive use from the National Survey on Family Growth (NSFG) and found that most of the declines in US adolescent pregnancy from 1995 to 2002 could be attributed to improved contraceptive use: for 77% of the decline among those aged 15-17 years and for all of the decline among those aged 18-19 years. The methodological improvement in ca…
Abortion in the United States
The numbers of abortions and the abortion rate continued their long-term decline through 2005. Reasons for this trend are unknown but may include improved access to and use of contraceptives or decreased access to abortion services
Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions
Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 3,032 pregnancies). Factor analyses identified two key dimensions of pregnancy intentions (desire and mistiming) and two smaller nondimensional categories …
Unintended pregnancy in the United States
Associations Between Perceived Partner Support and Relationship Dynamics With Timing of Pregnancy Termination
Perceived and Insurance-Related Barriers to the Provision of Contraceptive Services in U.S. Abortion Care Settings
Unintended Pregnancy Rates at the State Level
These rates provide benchmarks for measuring the impact on unintended pregnancy of state policies and practices, such as those governing sex education and the funding of contraceptive services
The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies
Public insurance programs are central in assisting American families in affording pregnancy and childbirth; however, they pay for a disproportionately high number of births resulting from unintended pregnancy. The resulting budgetary impact warrants increased public efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
Examining the association of abortion history and current mental health
Changes in use of long-acting contraceptive methods in the United States, 2007–2009
Variation in State Unintended Pregnancy Rates In the United States
State programs and policies should pay particular attention to increasing support for family planning services for minority groups. Findings also suggest that insurance coverage and receipt of Medicaid among women of reproductive age deserve further exploration as potentially important mechanisms for reducing state unintended pregnancy rates
Young Adults' Contraceptive Knowledge, Norms and Attitudes
Programs to increase young adults' knowledge about contraceptive methods and use are urgently needed. Given the demonstrated link between method knowledge and contraceptive behaviors, such programs may be useful in addressing risky behavior in this population
Medicine (30 obras) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (30 obras) · Family planning (26 obras) · Population (26 obras) · Pregnancy (26 obras) · Environmental health (22 obras) · Demography (21 obras) · Research methodology (20 obras) · Abortion (14 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (14 obras)