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Making Your Office Accessible for Adolescent and Young Adult IUD Services

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Many of the barriers that adolescents and young adults face in accessing health services are unique to young people, due to their stage in life, associated needs, perceptions, and abilities. Adolescent-friendly services are those effectively able to attract young people, responsively meet patient needs, and continue serving those needs through ongoing care. This chapter discusses key obstacles faced by adolescents and young adults with accessing reproductive health services, including important elements of adolescent-friendly health service provision and patient-centered contraceptive care. It also includes best practices and real-world examples for successful integration of adolescent-friendly same-day IUD provision for both emergency and ongoing contraception.

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Abbreviations

AYA:

Adolescent and young adult

EC:

Emergency contraception

EHR:

Electronic health records

IUD:

Intrauterine device

LARC:

Long-acting reversible contraception

LGBTQIA:

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, agender or allied

STI:

Sexually transmitted infection

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  1. Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Suzan Goodman

  2. Department of Adolescent Medicine, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA

    Lela R. Bachrach

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Goodman, S., Bachrach, L.R. (2019). Making Your Office Accessible for Adolescent and Young Adult IUD Services. In: Coles, M., Mays, A. (eds) Optimizing IUD Delivery for Adolescents and Young Adults. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17816-1_2

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