The emergency contraceptive pill in Brazil: High usage rates but schooling differences persist.

Objectives: This paper aims to analyze usage rates for the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) among women living in the city of São Paulo and their associated factors.

Study Design: A population based cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2015 with a probabilistic sample of 4,000 women aged 15 to 44 living in São Paulo, Brazil. Response rate for households was 75% and 77% for eligible women.

[Differences in contraceptive practice in the city of São Paulo, Brazil: results of the Ouvindo Mulheres population survey].

Contraception is essential for women to be able to regulate their fertility, exercising a key dimension of reproductive rights. However, little is known about how women deal with this challenge in Brazil's largest city, São Paulo. To fill this gap, the population survey Ouvindo Mulheres: Contracepção no Município de São Paulo was conducted with a probabilistic sample of 4,000 women 15 to 44 years of age living in this city in 2015.

Racial inequities and aging: analysis of the 2010 cohort of the Health, Welfare and Aging Study (SABE).

Introduction: Understanding racial disparities in Brazil has been very complex and poorly investigated in some population segments, such as the elderly individuals.

Objective: This study aimed to present descriptively a comparative analysis in a racial perspective of sociodemographic profile, health conditions, and health service use by older people in the city of São Paulo.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of the Health, Welfare and Aging Study (SABE).

Young women's contraceptive practices: a household survey in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

The last decade has witnessed initiatives to expand access to contraceptives in Brazil. However, the last population-based study on contraception was undertaken in 2006. A household survey in 2015 investigated contraceptive practices in women 15 to 44 years of age living in the city of São Paulo.

Notes on the female condom: experiences in Brazil.

A nationwide effort to introduce the female condom (FC) into public health services was undertaken in Brazil in 1998-99. To this end, the Ministry of Health sponsored a national research group of public health professionals, aided by local field workers and supervisors, to conduct a preparatory study at 20 sites in six cities. Clinic health workers were trained to conduct the study.