tailieunhanh - High rate of unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in a maternity hospital in Córdoba, Argentina: a pilot study

Integrating SRH services into public facilities provides greater potential for scaling up services and maintaining them on a long-term basis as networks are already in place across countries. Successful integration necessitates political commitment towards providing a comprehensive package of primary health care services and technical and financial support towards achieving this. Many attempts to integrate SRH services have encountered problems at the programme and service level. These include difficulties in: allocating and coordinating responsibilities; ensuring effective communication between staff in programmes; training staff with appropriate skills to meet a broader range of. | Reproductive Health BioMed Central Research High rate of unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in a maternity hospital in Córdoba Argentina a pilot study Celina Palena1 M Valeria Bahamondes 1 2 Verónica Schenk1 Luis Bahamondes2 and Julio Fernandez-Funes1 Open Access Address Maternity and Neonatal Hospital Córdoba Argentina and 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology School of Medical Sciences University of Campinas UNICAMP Campinas Brazil Email Celina Palena - celinapalena@ M Valeria Bahamondes - vbahamondes@ Verónica Schenk - veroschenk@ Luis Bahamondes - bahamond@ Julio Fernandez- Funes - jfernandezfunes@ Corresponding author Published 20 July 2009 Received 18 March 2009 Reproductive Health 2009 6 11 doi 1742-4755-6-1 1 Accepted 20 July 2009 This article is available from http content 6 1 11 2009 Palena 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 Although Argentina has a new law on Reproductive Health many barriers continue to exist regarding provision of contraceptive methods at public healthcare facilities. Methods We asked 212 pregnant women selected at random at the Maternity and Neonatal Hospital Córdoba Argentina to participate in our descriptive study. Women were asked to complete a structured questionnaire. The objectives were to determine the rate of unintended pregnancies reasons for not using contraception past history of contraceptive use and intended future use. Results Two hundred women responded to the questionnaire. Forty percent of the women stated that they had never used .