BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Dysmenorrhea, Cervical Cap

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Biomedical Physio & Kines
• Course: BPK 140
• Professor: Stephen Brown

Document Summary

Overview: the term management implies one should plan, and make a conscious decision about if and when i get pregnant. Nature of sexual aciviies and relaionship: contracepion may not be an issue for gay men or lesbians, for an individual who cannot physically have intercourse, or for an individual incarcerated in solitary coninement. In other situaions, a number of quesions arise: Personal, religious, and moral beliefs: in some places, only contracepion allowed is absinence, in some places, having many children is seen as a symbol of male virility, in some places, women do not like to touch genitals. Efeciveness: theoreical efeciveness is efeciveness of method in a test groups of people who use the method carefully, under controlled environments. Most efecive: absinence, male condom alone &predicing ferility, withdrawal. Least efecive: no method, spermicides: actual efeciveness is efeciveness of method as used by the general populaion in regular use (substanially lower efeciveness than theoreical)