Structural interventions aiming to enable adolescent use of contraception in low- and middle-income countries

Publication Year: 2022
Contributing Organisation: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL),London International Development Centre (LIDC),Oxford Policy Management,UKaid
Authors: Melanie Punton, Emma Mulhern, Gabrielle Appleford
Learning Themes: Global Health

Reducing adolescent pregnancy is a global public health priority and enabling contraceptive use is one way to achieve this. Broader determinants of contraceptive use, such as poverty, education and social norms, can affect knowledge, attitudes, motivation and ability to access and use contraception. Structural interventions aim to address these broader determinants and include cash transfer interventions, interventions to encourage participation in school, empowerment interventions and interventions aiming to change social norms. We conducted an evidence synthesis to explore a) what structural interventions have been evaluated for their effect on adolescent contraceptive use in low- and middle-income countries and b) how such interventions may work.

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