Women's Health

Does Watching Sex on Television Influence Teens’ Sexual Activity? — Oct 20, 2009

Two recent studies led by RAND Health behavioral scientist Rebecca Collins examined the impact of TV sex on teenagers’ sexual beliefs and activities.

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Exposure to Sex on TV May Increase the Chance of Teen Pregnancy — Nov 3, 2008

Offers some practical implications based on the first study to demonstrate a link between exposure to sexual content on TV and subsequently becoming pregnant or being responsible for a pregnancy before the age of 20.

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Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not? — Apr 10, 2008

This fact sheet describes a model of constrained choice that explains how policy decisions at the family, work, community, and government levels can have unintended consequences that ultimately produce differences in men's and women's health.

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Should ART be part of a population policy mix? Assessing the demographic impact of Assisted Reproductive Technologies — Jan 12, 2007

Details the results of a preliminary investigation into whether Assisted Reproductive Technologies can play a part in preventing European countries from falling into the low-fertility trap.

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HIV Testing Among Indigent Women: Who Gets Tested? — Nov 25, 2005

Among a random sample of 460 homeless (sheltered) women and 438 women living in low-income housing (housed women) in Los Angeles County, 83 percent reported that they had been tested for HIV at least once: 88 percent of sheltered women versus 80 percent of housed women.

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Obese Women Receiving Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Are Often Undertreated — Nov 25, 2005

By examining the medical files of 9,672 women treated between 1990 and 2001, a newly released study by RAND researchers sought to confirm whether obese women are in fact systematically undertreated for breast cancer.

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Les programmes interntionaux de planning familial: critiques et reponses: (International Family Planning Programs: Criticisms and Responses ) — Jan 1, 2003

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International Family Planning Programs: Criticisms and Responses — Jan 1, 2002

Examines the main critiques of family planning programs and places these in historical context. Also examines the research record to assess the validity of these criticisms and to document how programs have evolved in response to these criticisms.

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Family Planning Services Limit Abortion: Evidence from Bangladesh — Jan 1, 2001

The better family planning services prevented abortion rates from increasing in a setting in which they otherwise might have.

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Improvements in Contraception Are Reducing Historically High Abortion Rates in Russia — Jan 1, 2001

Examines the historical causes underlying traditionally high abortion rates in Russia, the contribution of family planning programs in recent years to reducing abortion rates, and prospects for continued improvement.

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Do Public Attitudes Toward Abortion Influence Attitudes Toward Family Planning? : Findings from a Survey of Americans — Jan 1, 2000

The survey results suggest that attitudes toward abortion exert only a minor influence in shaping the American public's attitude toward family planning.

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Preventing Very Low Birthweight Births: A Bundle of Savings — Jan 1, 1998

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Three Aspects of Health, Well-Being, and the Effective Functioning of the Elderly — Jan 1, 1998

Examined: (1) the effects of childbearing on women's health later in life, (2) the relationship between poor vision and well-being of older individuals, and (3) the effect of socioeconomic and health issues on the driving patterns of the elderly.

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International Family Planning: A Success Story So Far — Jan 1, 1998

The report focused on three issues: fertility trends in developing countries and their implications, the value of family planning programs, and program costs and donor support.

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The Unmet Need for Contraception in Developing Countries — Jan 1, 1998

Millions of women in developing countries who would prefer to postpone or avoid pregnancy do not use contraceptives. These women have an "unmet need" for contraception.

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Contraception and Fertility in Zimbabwe: Family Planning Services and Education Make a Difference — Jan 1, 1997

Controlling for access to services, education is a powerful predictor of both fertility and contraceptive use, particularly among younger women, who have benefited from the large increase in education opportunities since independence.

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How Economic Opportunities and Family-Planning Programs Control Population Growth — Jan 1, 1995

A new RAND study conducted for the World Bank suggests that, for countries like Indonesia with a well-developed family-planning infrastructure, further investments are best directed toward improving women's educational and employment prospects.

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