tailieunhanh - Women's attitudes towards mechanisms of action of family planning methods: survey in primary health centres in Pamplona, Spain

The past three decades have witnessed a steadily increasing awareness of the need to empower women through measures to increase social, economic and political equity, and broader access to fundamental human rights, improvements in nutrition, basic health and education. Along with awareness of the subordinate status of women has come the concept of gender as an overarching socio-cultural variable, seen in relation to other factors, such as race, class, age and ethnicity. Gender is not synonymous with women, nor is it a zero-sum game implying loss for men; rather, it refers to both women and men, and to their status, relative to each other. Gender equality refers to that stage of human social. | BMC Women s Health BioMed Central Open Access Women s attitudes towards mechanisms of action of family planning methods survey in primary health centres in Pamplona Spain Jokin de Irala1 Cristina Lopez del Burgo 1 Carmen M Lopez de Fez1 Jorge Arredondo1 Rafael T Mikolajczyk2 and Joseph B Stanford3 Address Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health School of Medicine University of Navarra Irunlarrea 1 31008 Pamplona Spain 2School of Public Health University of Bielefeld Germany and 3Department of Family and Preventive Medicine School of Medicine University of Utah. Salt Lake City UT USA Email Jokin de Irala - jdeirala@ Cristina Lopez del Burgo - cldelburgo@ Carmen M Lopez de Fez - cdefez@ Jorge Arredondo - drjarrecha@ Rafael T Mikolajczyk - Joseph B Stanford - jstanford@ Corresponding author Published 27 June 2007 Received 5 February 2007 BMC Women s Health 2007 7 10 doi 186 1472-6874-7-10 Accepted 27 June 2007 This article is available from http 1472-6874 7 10 2007 de Irala et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background Informed consent in family planning includes knowledge of mechanism of action. Some methods of family planning occasionally work after fertilization. Knowing about postfertilization effects may be important to some women before choosing a certain family planning method. The objective of this survey is to explore women s attitudes towards postfertilization effects of family planning methods and beliefs and characteristics possibly associated with those attitudes. Methods .