Alison Holt Norris
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 75086 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alison Holt Norris |
| PRENOMES | Alison Holt |
| SOBRENOME | Norris |
| ASSINATURA | NORRIS A H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1864-9583 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1932 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Emerging Ideas. Responsible fertility
Starting Early but not Getting Ahead
Understanding Trust, Delays and Black Women's Experiences Obtaining Abortion Care in the US Midwest
“What's wrong with me?”
Are we as Queer People Not the Pioneers of Found Family
Introduction Options for queer people to become parents have expanded in recent years, but remain limited. Queer people face barriers to becoming parents, whether through fertility care, adoption, or other options. Guided by the queer reproductive justice framework, we explore preferences of queer people and how queer people make decisions about the process of becoming parents. Methods We conducted 24 in-depth interviews with sexual and gender mi…
“I don't know if I'm a dad, I don't know if I'm a mom, I think I'm both”
Many transgender and gender expansive (trans∗) people assigned female at birth retain the capacity for pregnancy and want to become parents, through pregnancy or otherwise. We explored the role of gender in parenting and pregnancy desires among gender minorities theoretically capable of pregnancy. We conducted in-depth, open-ended interviews with 12 trans∗ adults (18–35 years) from July–August 2023 in the US. Interviews focused on gender identity…
Examining Post- Dobbs Changes in Abortion Use at 3 Southern Michigan Clinics, July 2021‒June 2023
Objectives. To examine changes in abortion service delivery for the years before (July 2021‒June 2022) and after Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health (July 2022‒June 2023) at 3 Planned Parenthood clinics in southern Michigan, when several states enacted laws further restricting abortion access, and Michigan became a destination for individuals in restrictive states. Methods. We used monthly abortion data from 3 Michigan clinics to calculate the mean nu…
Association Between Negative Pregnancy Desires and Recent Condomless Sex Among Couples in Vietnam
We examined the association between negative pregnancy desires and women's semen exposure, a measure of recent condomless sex, among 500 different-sex couples using condoms for contraception. We analyzed data from a trial in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam which longitudinally assessed women's semen exposure via prostate-specific antigen in vaginal fluid. At enrollment, partners independently reported the importance of avoiding pregnancy for the next six mont…
Feelings About Abortion at Time of Care
Understanding abortion legality and trimester of abortion care in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, three abortion‐restrictive states
More than one in five patients presenting for abortion care in three abortion-restrictive states prior to Dobbs erroneously believed that abortion was illegal or were unsure. Understanding of legality was not significantly associated with timing of abortion care. These misunderstandings could escalate under Dobbs
Pregnancy and pregnancy intention after experiencing infertility
Background Infertility is a common experience among individuals and couples. Infertility may resolve without intervention, but little is known about pregnancy intentions and incidence of pregnancy following infertility, particularly in low-resource settings. Methods Data come from UTHA, a longitudinal cohort study in Central Malawi, with baseline and follow up surveys conducted from 2014–2019 (N = 1,030 reproductive-aged women). We assessed bivar…
Policy Brief
Maternal Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Adverse Newborn Outcomes in the US
Free, but at what cost? How US crisis pregnancy centres provide services
In the USA, the most popular form of anti-abortion activism, crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs), provide a variety of services to prevent abortions. Moving beyond debate about misinformation and the ethics of CPCs, this study considers the services they provide and given their popularity among state legislatures, their connection to the state. Using interviews with ten CPC staff in Ohio (a state providing support to CPCs) and supplemental data from …
Covid ‐19 and abortion in the Ohio River Valley
Although abortion provision continued in this region, policy changes restricting abortion in Ohio and West Virginia resulted in a decrease in first trimester instrumentation abortions, an overall shift toward medication abortion care, and an increase in stress among facility staff during the early phase of COVID-19
Abortion-Related Laws and Concurrent Patterns in Abortion Incidence in Indiana, 2010–2019
Objectives. To analyze abortion incidence in Indiana concurrent with changes in abortion-related laws. Methods. Using publicly available data, we created a timeline of abortion-related laws in Indiana, calculated abortion rates by geography, and described changes in abortion occurrence coincident with changes in abortion-related laws between 2010 and 2019. Results. Between 2010 and 2019, Indiana’s legislature passed 14 abortion-restricting laws, …
Measuring Nuance in Individual Contraceptive Need
Contraceptive counseling protocols tend to focus narrowly on pregnancy intentions, which may overlook other factors that contribute to whether an individual wants or needs contraception. In this report, we demonstrate the potential of two measures of individual contraceptive need that could be assessed as part of contraceptive counseling: (1) a composite score constructed from pregnancy intentions, sexual frequency, and perceived fecundity and (2…
State of Confusion
This study examines an underexplored source of medical uncertainty: the political context of care. Since 2011, Ohio has passed over 16 abortion-restrictive laws. We know little about how this legislation affects reproductive health care outside of abortion clinics. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with genetic counselors and obstetrician-gynecologists, we examine how abortion legislation impacts their work. We find that interpretation and i…
“I felt like I was a bad person… which I’m not”
Stigma is present throughout everyday interactions but has particular salience for people seeking abortion care. Using Goffman’s conceptualization of stigma as a marker and enforcer of social ostracization, we expand on existing understandings of abortion stigma and its management. We draw on interviews with 12 clients and 10 staff members of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Ohio to demonstrate how stigmatization around abortion begins before a…
“I know my body and I just can't get pregnant that easily” – Women's use and non-use of the injection to manage fertility
women use the injection to achieve their desired family size. In 2018, we conducted 20 in-depth interviews with women who were part of a cohort study in rural Malawi. Interviews focused on contraceptive decision-making. Data were indexed (summarized) and coded using narrative, process, and thematic codes. Women described the importance of knowing about their "natural" fertility by having children prior to ever using contraception because women co…
Housing Stability and Access to General Healthcare and Reproductive Healthcare Among Women in Ohio
Community-based Systems Dynamics for Reproductive Health
Community-based system dynamics is well-suited for understanding complexity in the reproductive health system. It allows participants from diverse perspectives to identify strategies to eliminate racial inequities in reproductive health outcomes
Factors associated with never‐use of long‐acting reversible contraception among adult reproductive‐aged women in Ohio
Among ever-users of contraception, LARC never-use was associated with having conservative political views, being religious, and having a pro-life affiliation. Except for race/ethnicity, demographic and healthcare measures were not associated with LARC never-use among women in Ohio
How Ohio's proposed abortion bans would impact travel distance to access abortion care
Ohio's proposed abortion bans would substantially increase travel distances to abortion care, impacting over 2.2 million reproductive-aged Ohioans
Selecting an Abortion Clinic
Recent shifts in the abortion provision landscape have generated increased concern about how people find abortion care as regulations make abortion less accessible and clinics close. Few studies examine the reasons that people select particular facilities in such constrained contexts. Drawing from interviews with 41 Ohio residents, we find that people's clinic selections are influenced by the risks they associate with abortion care. Participants'…
Trajectories of women's abortion-related care
We present a new conceptual framework for studying trajectories to obtaining abortion-related care. It assembles for the first time all of the known factors influencing a trajectory and encourages readers to consider the ways these macro- and micro-level factors operate in multiple and sometimes conflicting ways. Based on presentation to and feedback from abortion experts (researchers, providers, funders, policymakers and advisors, advocates) (n …
Demystifying Nonparticipation in Microcredit
The sexual economy of a sugar plantation
Drawing on intensive ethnographic work, we explore how privatization has transformed the field of social and sexual relations on a large sugar plantation in northern Tanzania. Privatization has resulted in permanent layoffs, intensified labor discipline, and the displacement of former residents and of informal economic activities from the plantation itself into villages on the plantation perimeter. We show how spatial and temporal changes in the …
Individual and community-level impact of infertility-related stigma in Malawi
Alcohol and transactional sex
Abortion Access in Ohio’s Changing Legislative Context, 2010–2018
Objectives. To examine abortion utilization in Ohio from 2010 to 2018, a period when more than 15 abortion-related laws became effective. Methods. We evaluated changes in abortion rates and ratios examining gestation, geographic distribution, and abortion method in Ohio from 2010 to 2018. We used data from Ohio’s Office of Vital Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance Reports, the American Community Surv…
How Ohio's proposed abortion bans would impact travel distance to access abortion care
Ohio's proposed abortion bans would substantially increase travel distances to abortion care, impacting over 2.2 million reproductive-aged Ohioans
Group Sex and Prevalent Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men Who Have Sex with Men
Measuring Nuance in Individual Contraceptive Need
Contraceptive counseling protocols tend to focus narrowly on pregnancy intentions, which may overlook other factors that contribute to whether an individual wants or needs contraception. In this report, we demonstrate the potential of two measures of individual contraceptive need that could be assessed as part of contraceptive counseling: (1) a composite score constructed from pregnancy intentions, sexual frequency, and perceived fecundity and (2…
State of Confusion
This study examines an underexplored source of medical uncertainty: the political context of care. Since 2011, Ohio has passed over 16 abortion-restrictive laws. We know little about how this legislation affects reproductive health care outside of abortion clinics. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with genetic counselors and obstetrician-gynecologists, we examine how abortion legislation impacts their work. We find that interpretation and i…
Selecting an Abortion Clinic
Recent shifts in the abortion provision landscape have generated increased concern about how people find abortion care as regulations make abortion less accessible and clinics close. Few studies examine the reasons that people select particular facilities in such constrained contexts. Drawing from interviews with 41 Ohio residents, we find that people's clinic selections are influenced by the risks they associate with abortion care. Participants'…
Infertility, Perceived Certainty of Pregnancy, and Contraceptive Use in Malawi
Infertility and unintended pregnancy are dual burdens in Malawi, where 41% of pregnancies are unintended and approximately 20% of people report infertility. Although preventing unintended pregnancy has been a focus in public health, infertility has rarely been explored as a factor that may be associated with contraceptive use. Using cross‐sectional survey data (2017–2018; N = 749), we report on the prevalence of and sociodemographic characteristi…
Understanding abortion legality and trimester of abortion care in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, three abortion‐restrictive states
More than one in five patients presenting for abortion care in three abortion-restrictive states prior to Dobbs erroneously believed that abortion was illegal or were unsure. Understanding of legality was not significantly associated with timing of abortion care. These misunderstandings could escalate under Dobbs
Factors associated with never‐use of long‐acting reversible contraception among adult reproductive‐aged women in Ohio
Among ever-users of contraception, LARC never-use was associated with having conservative political views, being religious, and having a pro-life affiliation. Except for race/ethnicity, demographic and healthcare measures were not associated with LARC never-use among women in Ohio
Opinions About Abortion Among Reproductive-Age Women in Ohio
We have to respect that option
How to deal with Crime Waves
Demystifying Nonparticipation in Microcredit
Alcohol and transactional sex
Conducting Collaborative Abortion Research in International Settings
The sexual economy of a sugar plantation
Drawing on intensive ethnographic work, we explore how privatization has transformed the field of social and sexual relations on a large sugar plantation in northern Tanzania. Privatization has resulted in permanent layoffs, intensified labor discipline, and the displacement of former residents and of informal economic activities from the plantation itself into villages on the plantation perimeter. We show how spatial and temporal changes in the …
Connecting Knowledge about Abortion and Sexual and Reproductive Health to Belief about Abortion Restrictions
Does state-level context matter for individuals' knowledge about abortion, legality and health? Challenging the ‘red states v. blue states’ hypothesis
Recently, the hypothesis that state-level political context influences individuals' cultural values--the 'red states v. blue states' hypothesis--has been invoked to explain the hyper-polarisation of politics in the USA. To test this hypothesis, we examined individuals' knowledge about abortion in relation to the political context of their current state of residence. Drawing from an internet-survey of 586 reproductive-age individuals in the USA, w…
Self-Esteem and Risky Behaviors Among Residents of a Tanzanian Sugar Plantation
Risky behaviors can increase acquisition risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). Self-esteem may be linked to risky behavior, but little research has assessed this relationship in low-resource regions. Using cross-sectional data from a study of Tanzanian plantation residents, the authors examined associations between self-esteem and two risky behaviors (problematic alcohol use and transactional sex). In unadjusted and adjuste…
Group Sex and Prevalent Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men Who Have Sex with Men
The Relationship Between Ambivalent and Indifferent Pregnancy Desires and Contraceptive Use Among Malawian Women
CONTEXT: Pregnancy ambivalence and pregnancy indifference are thought to be associated with nonuse of contraceptives, but their conceptualization and measurement vary, and their relationship to contraceptive use in developing countries is poorly understood. METHODS: Data from the Umoyo wa Thanzi research program in rural Lilongwe, Malawi, were used to classify the pregnancy desires of 592 women aged 15-39 as antinatal, pronatal, ambivalent or ind…
An investigation of the relationship between autonomy, childbirth practices, and obstetric fistula among women in rural Lilongwe District, Malawi
BACKGROUND: Obstetric fistula is a childbirth injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in destruction of the tissue wall between the vagina and bladder. Although obstetric fistula is directly caused by prolonged obstructed labor, many other factors indirectly increase fistula risk. Some research suggests that many women in rural Malawi have limited autonomy and decision-making power in their households. We hypothesize that women's…
Missed Opportunities in Neonatal Deaths in Rwanda
Who Uses a Midwife for Prenatal Care and for Birth in the United States? A Secondary Analysis of Listening to Mothers III
Prevalence and attitudes on female genital mutilation/cutting in Egypt since criminalisation in 2008
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), which can result in severe pain, haemorrhage and poor birth outcomes, remains a major public health issue. The extent to which prevalence of and attitudes toward the practice have changed in Egypt since its criminalisation in 2008 is unknown. We analysed data from the 2005, 2008 and 2014 Egypt Demographic and Health Surveys to assess trends related to FGM/C. Specifically, we determined whether FGM/C prev…
Trajectories of women's abortion-related care
We present a new conceptual framework for studying trajectories to obtaining abortion-related care. It assembles for the first time all of the known factors influencing a trajectory and encourages readers to consider the ways these macro- and micro-level factors operate in multiple and sometimes conflicting ways. Based on presentation to and feedback from abortion experts (researchers, providers, funders, policymakers and advisors, advocates) (n …
Scarcity mindset in reproductive health decision making
Poverty has widespread impacts on health. In dealing with resource scarcity, individuals’ thoughts are narrowed to address immediate resource limitations, thus crowding out other information, a phenomenon called the scarcity mindset. To assess for indication of a scarcity mindset in sexual and reproductive decision making in rural Malawi, a setting with extreme resource scarcity, we collected qualitative data in the form of eight focus group disc…
Gender Differences in Perceived Benefits of and Barriers to Use of Modern Contraceptive Methods in Rural Malawi
CONTEXT: Despite the extensive literature on women's perceptions about contraceptive methods, distinctions between specific methods have rarely been investigated, men have often been excluded and comparable data for contraceptive users and nonusers have typically not been collected. The lack of such information may limit family planning programs' effectiveness. METHODS: Cross-sectional survey data from 1,162 women and 621 men were used to examine…
Abortion Access in Ohio’s Changing Legislative Context, 2010–2018
Objectives. To examine abortion utilization in Ohio from 2010 to 2018, a period when more than 15 abortion-related laws became effective. Methods. We evaluated changes in abortion rates and ratios examining gestation, geographic distribution, and abortion method in Ohio from 2010 to 2018. We used data from Ohio’s Office of Vital Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance Reports, the American Community Surv…
Individual and community-level impact of infertility-related stigma in Malawi
Messages around contraceptive use and implications in rural Malawi
The unmet need for contraception in Malawi remains high, despite progress increasing knowledge and access over the past two decades. Understanding the reasons for this unmet need is critical to programme planning and service delivery. In this study, we conducted 30 in-depth interviews and 13 focus group discussions with women and men in rural Malawi to understand social, cultural and relational barriers and facilitators to contraceptive use. We f…
Opinions About Abortion Among Reproductive-Age Women in Ohio
Infertility, Perceived Certainty of Pregnancy, and Contraceptive Use in Malawi
Infertility and unintended pregnancy are dual burdens in Malawi, where 41% of pregnancies are unintended and approximately 20% of people report infertility. Although preventing unintended pregnancy has been a focus in public health, infertility has rarely been explored as a factor that may be associated with contraceptive use. Using cross‐sectional survey data (2017–2018; N = 749), we report on the prevalence of and sociodemographic characteristi…
We have to respect that option
“I felt like I was a bad person… which I’m not”
Stigma is present throughout everyday interactions but has particular salience for people seeking abortion care. Using Goffman’s conceptualization of stigma as a marker and enforcer of social ostracization, we expand on existing understandings of abortion stigma and its management. We draw on interviews with 12 clients and 10 staff members of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Ohio to demonstrate how stigmatization around abortion begins before a…
“I know my body and I just can't get pregnant that easily” – Women's use and non-use of the injection to manage fertility
women use the injection to achieve their desired family size. In 2018, we conducted 20 in-depth interviews with women who were part of a cohort study in rural Malawi. Interviews focused on contraceptive decision-making. Data were indexed (summarized) and coded using narrative, process, and thematic codes. Women described the importance of knowing about their "natural" fertility by having children prior to ever using contraception because women co…
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