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Lecture Notes

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> Session 1

Lecture Notes (21 KB)
Slides: Population Policies (82 KB)

> Session 2

Lecture Notes, Part I: Proximate Determinants (96 KB)
Lecture Notes, Part II: Contraceptive Technologies: Continuation & Failure Rates (103 KB)
Slides: Proximate Determinants & Contraceptive Continuation & Failure (148 KB)
Supplementary Slides: Global Trends in Contraceptive Use (720 KB)

> Session 3

Lecture Notes: Demand, Supply, and Unmet Need (95 KB)
Slides: Supply, Demand, and Unmet Need for Contraception (165 KB)

> Session 6

Lecture Notes: Unwanted Fertility and Induced Abortion (28 KB)
Slides: Unwanted Fertility and Induced Abortion (404 KB)

> Session 7

Lecture Notes: Case Studies - Users Perspectives, Quality of Care, Medical Barriers and Contraceptive Choices (38 KB)

> Session 8

Lecture Notes: Paying for Family Planning (58 KB)
Slides: Cost Recovery (179 KB)

> Session 9

Lecture Notes: Ethical Issues (26 KB)
Lecture Notes: Incentives and Coercion (23 KB)

> Session 10

Lecture Notes: Gender Relations (32 KB)

> Session 12

Lecture Notes: Community Based Distribution (40 KB)
Lecture Notes: Integration (102 KB)