Malcolm Potts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81579 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Malcolm Potts |
| PRENOMES | Malcolm |
| SOBRENOME | Potts |
| ASSINATURA | POTTS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
New hope
The wide gap in maternal mortality ratios worldwide indicates major inequities in the levels of risk women face during pregnancy. Two priority strategies have emerged among safe motherhood advocates: increasing the quality of emergency obstetric care facilities and deploying skilled birth attendants. The training of traditional birth attendants, a strategy employed in the 1970s and 1980s, is no longer considered a best practice. However, inadequa…
Niger
In this article Niger is presented as the most extreme example of a catastrophe that is likely to overtake the Sahel. Niger is characterized by the world’s fastest growing population and its highest total fertility rate (TFR). The author cites demographic and family planning norms along with development and environmental issues as significant components of the problem posed by the country’s rapid population growth. The policies chosen by Niger’s …
A Woman Cannot Die from a Pregnancy She Does Not Have
More than 99% of maternal deaths occur in low-resource settings; in parts of the developing world, as many as one in six women die of maternal causes. Currently, seven developing countries-Afghanistan, Angola, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Tanzania-have maternal mortality ratios of at least 1,400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births
Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher
P d R 3 7 ( 3 ) 5 8 7 the emergence of stable, prosperous, commodity-exporting societies that interacted ever more closely with their metropolitan centers.belich calls this process recolonization, and in the case of the british dominions he gives a plausible account of how the ties between these colonies and the mother Country tightened over time, and how the cultural and economic roles of london created a collective identity of a "Greater britai…
Are the population policies of India and China responsible for the fertility decline
In the 1970s, policy‐makers in both India and China, convinced that reducing population growth was critical for ending poverty, instituted coercive population policies. Yet fertility had already been declining in both countries before the population policies were instituted. In China, the total fertility rate (TFR) had already fallen to 2.9 before the institution of the One‐Child Policy. In India, fertility continued to decline at roughly the sam…
Avoidable maternal deaths
The current paper examines the realities of women delivering in resource-poor settings, and recommends cost-effective, scalable strategies for making these deliveries safer. Ninety-five percent of maternal deaths occur in poor settings, and the largest proportion of these deaths are women who deliver at home, far away from health care facilities, and without financial access to skilled providers. This situation will improve only when policymakers…
Reassessing HIV Prevention
The largest investments in AIDS prevention targeted to the general population are being made in interventions where the evidence for large-scale impact is uncertain.
Population and environment in the twenty-first century
Barriers to Fertility Regulation
The evidence in the demographic and family planning literature of the range and diversity of the barriers to fertility regulation in many developing countries is reviewed in this article from a consumer perspective. Barriers are defined as the constraining factors standing between women and the realistic availability of the technologies and correct information they need in order to decide whether and when to have a child. The barriers include lim…
Hypersaline Cyanobacterial Mats as Indicators of Elevated Tropical Hurricane Activity and Associated Climate Change
The Atlantic hurricanes of 1999 caused widespread environmental damage throughout the Caribbean and US mid-Atlantic coastal regions. However, these storms also proved beneficial to certain microbial habitats; specifically, cyanobacteria-dominated mats. Modern mats represent the oldest known biological communities on earth, stromatolites. Contemporary mats are dominant biological communities in the hypersaline Bahamian lakes along the Atlantic hur…
Letters
Sex and the Birth Rate
The fertility transition in Cuba and the Federal Republic of Korea
South Korea and Cuba are dissimilar in religion, economy, culture and attitudes toward premarital sexual relations. In 1960, Korea instituted a national family planning programme to combat rapid population growth. Cuba explicitly rejected Malthusian policies, but made family planning universally available in 1974 in response to health needs. Both countries have undergone rapid fertility declines and today have less than replacement level fertilit…
Population complexity A step backwards for policy
Population complexity A step backwards for policy
Findings from Two Decades of Family Planning Research
The urgent need for a vaginal microbicide in the prevention of HIV transmission
The urgent need for a vaginal microbicide in the prevention of HIV transmission. M PottsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.6.890 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Unmet Demand for Family Planning
Family planning is still an area that excites controversy, but there is clear evidence of a strong demand for family planning services. The population of Kenya, for example, doubles every 18 years and the total fertility rate of the Earth's population is still twice that required to maintain present numbers. Successful family planning programmes are discussed and it is shown that they all have certain factors in common: they are widespread, cheap…
Should oral contraceptives be available without prescription
In this paper, it is argued that oral contraceptives should be available without prescription. Prescription status entails heavy costs, including the dollar, time, and psychological costs of visiting a physician to obtain a prescription, the financial and human costs of unintended pregnancies that result from the obstacle to access caused by medicalization of oral contraceptives, and administrative costs to the health care system. After a review …
Not yet pregnant
Paraguayan pharmacies and the sale of pseudo-abortifacients
This study was conducted in 1985 in Asunción, Paraguay, 6 years after the closure of the state supported family planning services. Data from national surveys in 1977 and 1987 permit a comparison of sources of contraceptive supplies before and after the elimination of government support for family planning. The purchase of pseudo-abortifacients from private pharmacies was used as an indication of induced abortion. After the loss of government clin…
The fifth freedom revisited
Natural Human Fertility
Causes of death to women of reproductive age in two developing countries
Reproductive Risks in a Community-Based Distribution Program of Oral Contraceptives, Matamoros, Mexico
A Reproductive Risk Factors Survey was carried out in 1982 in conjunction with a community-based distribution (CBD) program in Matamoros, Mexico, to determine whether the distribution of oral contraceptives to women through CBD programs exposes any demonstrable group of users to more health risks than if the program had not been put in place. The methodology involved interviews by nurses of program pill users and non-program pill users. Health in…
Sex and the Birth Rate
Not yet pregnant
Reproductive mortality in two developing countries
Reproductive mortality includes mortality attributable to pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, childbirth and its sequelae, and contraception. Reproductive mortality has been estimated for the United Kingdom, the United States, and for states of the US. However, it has not previously been measured for developing countries, where maternal mortality often remains distressingly high. This paper reports on data from one governorate of Egypt, where re…
Reproductive Risks in a Community-Based Distribution Program of Oral Contraceptives, Matamoros, Mexico
A Reproductive Risk Factors Survey was carried out in 1982 in conjunction with a community-based distribution (CBD) program in Matamoros, Mexico, to determine whether the distribution of oral contraceptives to women through CBD programs exposes any demonstrable group of users to more health risks than if the program had not been put in place. The methodology involved interviews by nurses of program pill users and non-program pill users. Health in…
Should oral contraceptives be available without prescription
In this paper, it is argued that oral contraceptives should be available without prescription. Prescription status entails heavy costs, including the dollar, time, and psychological costs of visiting a physician to obtain a prescription, the financial and human costs of unintended pregnancies that result from the obstacle to access caused by medicalization of oral contraceptives, and administrative costs to the health care system. After a review …
New hope
The wide gap in maternal mortality ratios worldwide indicates major inequities in the levels of risk women face during pregnancy. Two priority strategies have emerged among safe motherhood advocates: increasing the quality of emergency obstetric care facilities and deploying skilled birth attendants. The training of traditional birth attendants, a strategy employed in the 1970s and 1980s, is no longer considered a best practice. However, inadequa…
Population and environment in the twenty-first century
The urgent need for a vaginal microbicide in the prevention of HIV transmission
The urgent need for a vaginal microbicide in the prevention of HIV transmission. M PottsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.6.890 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Unmet Demand for Family Planning
Family planning is still an area that excites controversy, but there is clear evidence of a strong demand for family planning services. The population of Kenya, for example, doubles every 18 years and the total fertility rate of the Earth's population is still twice that required to maintain present numbers. Successful family planning programmes are discussed and it is shown that they all have certain factors in common: they are widespread, cheap…
Abortion
Causes of death to women of reproductive age in two developing countries
The sociology of population control
Research requirements
It is surprising that although the IPPF is 27 years old it has never previously had a meeting on this topic. On rational grounds, it is one of the first subjects at which it might have looked because many of the data we have discussed were available long ago. I remember reading about a Western doctor in Asia who saw the familiar scene of a mother with a young baby being suckled from one breast and an older child from the other breast but, in this…
Taking Family Planning to the World's Poor
Abortion
Abortion
Birth Control. An International Assessment
Society and Fertility
Society and Fertility
Society and Fertility
Meeting the Family Planning Needs of the Urban Poor
Risks and costs of illegally induced abortion in Bangladesh
This article reports on women admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for incomplete, illegally induced abortion. Women with low complication rates more often had abortions induced by medical practitioners. These women were younger, of lower parity and better educated than women having abortions initiated by other practitioners. Poorly educated women from slum areas almost always had an abortion induced by a non-medical practitioner through th…
Textbook of Contraceptive Practice
Childbirth in Developing Countries
Reproductive mortality in two developing countries
Reproductive mortality includes mortality attributable to pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, childbirth and its sequelae, and contraception. Reproductive mortality has been estimated for the United Kingdom, the United States, and for states of the US. However, it has not previously been measured for developing countries, where maternal mortality often remains distressingly high. This paper reports on data from one governorate of Egypt, where re…
Oral Contraceptives and Life Expectancy
Life expectancy for women in the United States is 77.34 years; women who take oral contraceptives (OCs) for five years before the age of 30 can expect to live about four days longer. This is due primarily to protection against ovarian and endometrial cancers. For women taking pills for five years in their thirties there is a maximum loss of 18 days on the average that is attributable to OC use, and for women over 45 this rises to 80 days. The dec…
Breast-Feeding and Fertility
This volume contains in part the proceedings of a conferece organized by Family Health International and held in Manila the Philippines in October 1983. It includes a series of 11 orioinal papers describing for the 1st time the total contraceptive impact of breast feeding in 1) a traditional preliterate society in Highland New Guinea 2) in 2 affluent westernized communities in Australia both committed to prolonged breast feeding and 3) in less af…
Causes of death to women of reproductive age in two developing countries
Reproductive Risks in a Community-Based Distribution Program of Oral Contraceptives, Matamoros, Mexico
A Reproductive Risk Factors Survey was carried out in 1982 in conjunction with a community-based distribution (CBD) program in Matamoros, Mexico, to determine whether the distribution of oral contraceptives to women through CBD programs exposes any demonstrable group of users to more health risks than if the program had not been put in place. The methodology involved interviews by nurses of program pill users and non-program pill users. Health in…
Natural Human Fertility
The fifth freedom revisited
Paraguayan pharmacies and the sale of pseudo-abortifacients
This study was conducted in 1985 in Asunción, Paraguay, 6 years after the closure of the state supported family planning services. Data from national surveys in 1977 and 1987 permit a comparison of sources of contraceptive supplies before and after the elimination of government support for family planning. The purchase of pseudo-abortifacients from private pharmacies was used as an indication of induced abortion. After the loss of government clin…
Not yet pregnant
Unmet Demand for Family Planning
Family planning is still an area that excites controversy, but there is clear evidence of a strong demand for family planning services. The population of Kenya, for example, doubles every 18 years and the total fertility rate of the Earth's population is still twice that required to maintain present numbers. Successful family planning programmes are discussed and it is shown that they all have certain factors in common: they are widespread, cheap…
Should oral contraceptives be available without prescription
In this paper, it is argued that oral contraceptives should be available without prescription. Prescription status entails heavy costs, including the dollar, time, and psychological costs of visiting a physician to obtain a prescription, the financial and human costs of unintended pregnancies that result from the obstacle to access caused by medicalization of oral contraceptives, and administrative costs to the health care system. After a review …
The urgent need for a vaginal microbicide in the prevention of HIV transmission
The urgent need for a vaginal microbicide in the prevention of HIV transmission. M PottsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.6.890 Published Online: October 07, 2011
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