EDITORIAL article Front. Drug Saf. Regul., 21 April 2023Sec. Advanced Methods in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology Volume 3 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fdsfr.2023.1188715

BACKGROUND Psychologically traumatic events can affect anybody, but consequences of psychological birth trauma for the mother are very profound, extensive and unforgettable. Furthermore, the mother's response not only touches the mother, but also affects the child, the father and the society. The objective of this study was to explore the mothers' response to psychological birth trauma. OBJEC...

INTRODUCTION There is little available evidence of associations between the various dimensions of women's empowerment and contraceptive use having been examined--and of how these associations are mediated by women's socio-economic and demographic statuses. We assessed these phenomena in Pakistan using a structured-framework approach. METHODS We analyzed data on 2,133 women who were either usi...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(4) Background Contraceptive decision-making is a complex process. In an ideal world, individuals would choose the best method of contraception for them by systematically weighing up its ‘pros and cons’, based on the importance they attach to criteria such as efficacy, safety and ease of use, the extent to which the available contraceptive options ar...

Computer ethics is usually motivated by and deals with problematic decision-making cases arising from the ubiquity and unprecedented power of computer and information technologies. In this paper, we address a distinct topic that is germane to computer ethics but has thus far been neglected in the computer ethics literature. Formal methods is the science of mathematically proving computer system...

n engl j med 368;1 nejm.org january 3, 2013 6 requirement substantially burdens the religious beliefs of employers. Two courts have observed that the rule does not require employers to use contraceptives or even to approve of their use. It asks the employer only to make a benefit available, which the employee must then decide whether or not to use. Employers object, however, that they should no...

Participatory democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements from both direct and representative democracy: Citizens have the power to decide on policy proposals and politicians assume the role of policy implementation. The aim of this paper is to understand how participatory democracy operates, and to study its implications over the behavior of citizens and politic...