Publications by authors named "H Kilander"

Background And Aim: Immigrant women in many high-income countries including Sweden, report unmet need of sexual and reproductive health and rights, and face worse pregnancy outcomes and higher risk of unintended pregnancies. Postpartum contraceptive services are often inadequate to meet their needs. Co-design has shown to reduce health inequities, yet little is known about using this method for postpartum contraceptive service development and even less in collaborating with immigrant populations.

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Background: Women who have migrated often encounter difficulties in accessing healthcare and experience inequitable sexual and reproductive health outcomes in destination countries. These health inequities include contraceptive access and use. To better understand what influences contraceptive access and use, this scoping review set out to synthesize the evidence on contraceptive access and use and on associated interventions among women with migratory experience in high-income countries (HICs) in Europe, North America and Australasia.

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Background: The unmet need for postpartum contraception is a global challenge. Postpartum placement of an intrauterine device (IUD) within 48 hours of vaginal delivery is available in many settings worldwide, but is not routinely practised in Sweden. To improve contraceptive services and facilitate the informed choice of IUD placement at the time of a caesarean section (CS), we performed this study to identify and describe women's experiences of contraceptive services before, during and after an elective CS.

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Background: Improved contraceptive services could reduce the unmet need for contraception and unintended pregnancies globally. This is especially true among foreign-born women in high-income countries, as the health outcomes related to unmet need of contraception disproportionally affect this group. A widely used quality improvement approach to improve health care services is Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC).

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Background: Worldwide, there is limited knowledge regarding women's views of future fertility in relation to contraceptive use. Few studies include material where women share their experiences at peer-written public domain websites, in spite of a larger portion of women discontinuing use of contraceptives. The objective of this study was to explore women's experiences of contraceptive methods based on data gathered from individual blog posts.

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