Studies in family planning

Conventional metrics of contraceptive need focus on contraceptive use among those not seeking pregnancy, ignoring individuals' contraceptive preferences beyond pregnancy prevention. We examine contraceptive alignment, a novel metric describ…

The well-being of individuals and communities is increasingly recognized as a core objective of economic and global development policies and programs. However, existing measures of well-being neglect sexual and reproductive experiences, whi…

Perceived infertility is an understudied phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries, where biomedical infertility can have severe consequences, particularly for women. We conducted a nationally representative survey of Ghanaian women, e…