Availability of Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception in 2 Disparate New York City Neighborhoods

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ID11032178
AuthorsKatherine Legare (0000-0003-1134-9948, Katherine Legare and Salina Bakshi are with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Salomeh Keyhani is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth A. Howell is with the Departments of Health Evidence and Policy; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science; and Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.), Salina Bakshi (Katherine Legare and Salina Bakshi are with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Salomeh Keyhani is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth A. Howell is with the Departments of Health Evidence and Policy; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science; and Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.), Salomeh Keyhani (0000-0001-9124-9618, Katherine Legare and Salina Bakshi are with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Salomeh Keyhani is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth A. Howell is with the Departments of Health Evidence and Policy; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science; and Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.), Evan A Howell (0009-0008-0048-411X, Mount Sinai Medical Center), Elizabeth A Howell (Katherine Legare and Salina Bakshi are with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Salomeh Keyhani is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth A. Howell is with the Departments of Health Evidence and Policy; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science; and Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.)
Year2012
Volume102
Issue11
Pagese45-e47
Publication date2012-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2012.300966
PMID22994248
PMCIDPMC3477945
OpenAlexW2013976758
LanguageEN
References cited10

We conducted a telephone survey of pharmacies in 2 New York City neighborhoods on same-day availability, type, and cost of over-the-counter emergency contraception. There was no difference in availability of over-the-counter emergency contraception between Upper East Side and East Harlem pharmacies (93% vs 94%; P = .71). Average cost of medication was less in East Harlem than in the Upper East Side ($45.16 vs $51.64; P

Advertising · Business · Emergency contraception · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Medical prescription · Over-the-counter · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Telephone survey · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmacy · Reproductive Health and Contraception

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