Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity Into Public Health Goals and Metrics: Comparative Analysis of Healthy People 2030's Approach and a Person-Centered Approach to Contraceptive Access Using Population-Based Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Healthy People initiative is a national effort to lay out public health goals in the United States every decade. In its latest iteration, Healthy People 2030, key goals related to contraception focus on increasing the use of effective birth control (contraceptive methods classified as most or moderately effective for pregnancy prevention) among women at risk of unintended pregnancy. This narrow focus is misaligned with sexual and reproductive health equity, which recognizes that individuals' self-defined contraceptive needs are critical for monitoring contraceptive access and designing policy and programmatic strategies to increase access.

Objective

We aimed to compare 2 population-level metrics of contraceptive access: a conventional metric, use of contracept

SUBMITTER: Gomez AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11372330 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature