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Steroid Contraceptives and Women’s Response: Program Considerations from the Quality of Care Perspective

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Steroid Contraceptives and Women’s Response

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Abstract

Women vary not only in their biological response to contraceptives, but also in their assessments of acceptability of method characteristics and the services for providing them. Method discontinuation, while often mainly attributable to unacceptable side effects, may also be caused by unacceptability of the method’s mode of action, route of administration, or poor experience with the service system that provides the method. As biomedical researchers strive to understand biological variability in method response and to help fine tune methods to minimize potential side effects, family planning service systems may simultaneously introduce mechanisms for increasing contraceptive acceptance and continuation by improving routine program operations that increase client satisfaction with methods.

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  1. Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Joan Kaufman

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  1. Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

    Rachel Snow

  2. World Health Organization, Geneva 27, 1211, Switzerland

    Peter Hall

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Kaufman, J. (1994). Steroid Contraceptives and Women’s Response: Program Considerations from the Quality of Care Perspective. In: Snow, R., Hall, P. (eds) Steroid Contraceptives and Women’s Response. Reproductive Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2445-8_17

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