Contraceptive Technologies: Looking Ahead to New Approaches to Increase Options for Family Planning
With persistently high global rates of unintended pregnancy and contraceptive nonuse, nonadherence and discontinuation, new contraceptive methods must address the needs of women and men who seek alternatives to their current options. Methods under development aim to reduce potential side effects, improve access and ease of use, ensure safety, increase secondary benefits associated with method use and expand options for both women and men. Developmental approaches employed to enhance current methods utilize new delivery systems and novel active pharmaceutical ingredients. This will improve overall user satisfaction with the...
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - July 29, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Global Gynecology Source Type: research
How It Started, and How It’s Going: Global Family Planning Programs
Family planning (FP) is the domain that enables people to have their desired number of children if any, and the desired spacing of births. FP initiatives are cross-cutting approaches to empower people with human and reproductive rights, lessen child morbidity and pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality, alleviate poverty, slow climate change, provide sustainable economic growth and development, advance education, and voluntarily slow overpopulation. We examine global FP programs: the history, drivers, and indicators to measure impact, policy, and strategy that surrounds human reproduction. We focus on current trends of t...
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - July 29, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Global Gynecology Source Type: research
How Can We Achieve Sustainable Development Goal-5: Gender Equality for All by 2030?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched in 2016 to expand the 2000 Millennium Development Goals. SDG-5 calls on governments to achieve gender equality and empowerment of all girls, highlighting the importance of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). There are large variations across the globe in maternity safety and there is clear evidence that a significant percentage of maternity mortality is preventable through the provision of reliable contraception and safe abortion services for women. If SDG-5 is to be achieved by 2030, it is essential that women have access to appropriate life-saving healthcare and su...
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - July 29, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Global Gynecology Source Type: research
Foreword: Global Gynecology
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Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - July 29, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Source Type: research
Contributors: Global Gynecology
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Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - July 29, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Contributors: Global Gynecology Source Type: research
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Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Index Source Type: research
How Telehealth Can be Used to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: A Population Approach
Mobile applications and telehealth services are being used to unprecedented degrees in maternal and child care, with uncertain impact on population health outcomes. In this article, we will review the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in accelerating large scale implementation of telehealth services, known and anticipated impacts on maternal and child health and related inequities, and potential strategies to optimize outcomes at the population level. (Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Use of Telemedicine and Smart Technology in Obstetrics: Barriers and Privacy Issues
While telemedicine had been utilized in varying ways over the last several years, it has dramatically accelerated in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article we describe the privacy issues, in relation to the barriers to care for health care providers and barriers to the obstetric patient, licensing and payments for telehealth services, technological issues and language barriers. While there may be barriers to the use of telehealth services this type of care is feasible and the barriers are surmountable. (Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Mobile Health Approaches to Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is available to nearly all women and has well-established short-term and long-term health benefits for mothers and infants. However, rates of breastfeeding initiation and continuation vary significantly according to sociodemographic factors, particularly in the United States. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions such as web-based/online education or smartphone applications have showed promise in increasing breastfeeding initiation and supporting breastfeeding continuation, and the importance of such mHealth-based breastfeeding support has increased significantly during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This exp...
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Reducing Disparities Using Telehealth Approaches for Postdelivery Preeclampsia Care
The management of hypertensive disease of pregnancy presents an ongoing challenge after patients are discharged from delivery hospitalizations. Preeclampsia and other forms of postpartum hypertension increase the risk for severe maternal morbidity and mortality in the postpartum period, and both hypertension and its associated adverse events disproportionately affect black women. With its ability to transcend barriers to health care access, telemedicine can facilitate high-quality postpartum care delivery for preeclampsia management and thereby reduce racial disparities in obstetric care and outcomes. Here we discuss racia...
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Text Messaging as a Means to Engage Patients in the Postpartum Period
We describe key areas of telemedicine utilization including lactation services, blood pressure monitoring, diabetes screening, mental health services, weight loss programs, and access to contraception in the postpartum period. Future research and clinical work should aim to further examine the use of telehealth among postpartum individuals. (Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Telehealth Approaches to Improve Opioid Use Care in Pregnancy
This article presents a case study of using telemedicine to provide pharmacotherapy in pregnancy, examines the barriers to providing pharmacotherapy via telemedicine, and proposes solutions to overcome these barriers. (Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Prenatal Education in the Digital Age
The millennial pregnant patient expects an innovative approach to prenatal care. Patients are reaching to peer support online communities or engaging in direct-to-consumer mobile applications during their pregnancy. Currently developed solutions show promise, however, the clinical impact and generalizability of these solutions remains unclear. Technology has the potential to decrease health care disparities, improve patient and provider satisfaction as well as clinical outcomes. In this article we discuss traditional models of prenatal education as well and suggest how obstetricians should consider utilizing technology as ...
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Using Telehealth Approaches to Address Social Determinants of Health and Improve Pregnancy and Postpartum Outcomes
Telehealth has expanded its reach significantly since its inception due to the advances in technology over the last few decades. Social determinants of health (SDOH) negatively impact the health of pregnant and postpartum women and need to be considered when deploying telehealth strategies. In this article, we describe telehealth modalities and their application to improve the SDOH that impact pregnancy and postpartum outcomes. Physicians and patients alike report satisfaction with telehealth as it improves access to education, disease monitoring, specialty care, prenatal and postpartum care. Ten years ago, we developed a ...
Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
Foreword: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care
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Source: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology - April 30, 2021 Category: OBGYN Tags: Smart Technology in Obstetrical Care Source Type: research
