eprintid: 7071 rev_number: 4 userid: 6 dir: disk0/00/00/70/71 datestamp: 2011-11-10 19:36:45 lastmod: 2016-11-15 13:39:53 status_changed: 2011-11-10 19:36:45 type: thesis_degree metadata_visibility: show contact_email: ejm2093@gmail.com item_issues_count: 0 eprint_status: archive creators_name: Mason, Elizabeth Jane creators_email: ejm2093@gmail.com title: Identifying Factors of Influence on Family Planning Practices Among Rural Haitian Women ispublished: unpub divisions: sch_gsph_behavioralcommhealthsci full_text_status: public keywords: and family size Haiti; birth control methods; contraceptive use among Haitian women; family planning; family planning Haiti; focus groups; gender norms Haiti; Haiti; lay health workers; social ecological framework; social norms Haiti abstract: Haiti, a country located in the Caribbean, is considered to be the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. With a population of more than eight million, Haiti is amongst the poorest of the poor with majority of the population living in abject poverty. In Haiti, a large majority of women have unmet needs for family planning or child-spacing which inevitably leads to high maternal mortality. In Haiti, most births occur at home without trained health care personnel, and the country has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDs in the region. Increasing access to reproductive health services, including family planning, to women who want them is of critical public health concern. The purpose of this thesis is to examine factors that may affect rural Haitian women's choice in utilizing family planning services by using the Social Ecological Framework as a guide. A comprehensive literature search was conducted through multiple search engines and two themes were identified as factors of influence including contraceptive use and desired family size. Increasing the availability of family planning services to women who want them would increase the likelihood of saving lives and improving the overall health of women in rural Haiti by increasing socio-economic status, empowerment, education, and reproductive health. date: 2010-06-30 date_type: completed institution: University of Pittsburgh refereed: TRUE etdcommittee_type: committee_chair etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_name: Terry, Martha Ann etdcommittee_name: Fryer, Craig etdcommittee_name: Siegel, Michael etdcommittee_name: Rohrer, Wesley etdcommittee_email: materry@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: csf5@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: siegel@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: csf5@pitt.edu etdcommittee_id: MATERRY etdcommittee_id: CSF5 etdcommittee_id: SIEGEL etdcommittee_id: CSF5 etd_defense_date: 2010-03-18 etd_approval_date: 2010-06-30 etd_submission_date: 2010-04-12 etd_access_restriction: immediate etd_patent_pending: FALSE assigned_doi: doi:10.5195/pitt.etd.2011.7071 thesis_type: thesis degree: MPH committee: Martha Ann Terry (materry@pitt.edu) - Committee Chair committee: Craig Fryer (csf5@pitt.edu) - Committee Member committee: Michael Siegel (siegel@pitt.edu) - Committee Member committee: Wesley Rohrer (csf5@pitt.edu) - Committee Member etdurn: etd-04122010-151628 other_id: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-04122010-151628/ other_id: etd-04122010-151628 citation: Mason, Elizabeth Jane (2010) Identifying Factors of Influence on Family Planning Practices Among Rural Haitian Women. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished) document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/7071/1/Mason2010etd.pdf