- Title
- Public reproductive health and ‘unintended’ pregnancies: introducing the construct ‘supportability’
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Date Issued
- 2015
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6313
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019881
- Identifier
- https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/pubmed/fdv123
- Description
- In this Perspectives paper, I outline the limitations of the concept of ‘intentionality’ in public reproductive health understandings of pregnancy. ‘Intentionality’, ‘plannedness’, ‘wantedness’ and ‘timing’ place individual cognitions, psychology and/or behaviors at the center of public health conceptualizations of pregnancies, thereby leaving the underlying social and structural dynamics under-examined. I propose a model that places ‘supportability’ at the center of thinking about pregnancies and that allows for an analysis of the intersection of individual cognitions, emotions and behavior with micro-level interactive spaces and macro-level issues.
- Description
- Full text access on Publisher website: https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/pubmed/fdv123
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C. (2015). Public reproductive health and ‘unintended’ pregnancies: introducing the construct ‘supportability’. Journal of Public Health, 1-8. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdv123 Available:http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/09/08/pubmed.fdv123.abstract?sid=833a9233-7db9-4ee8-b2e7-8e73241f2564
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproductions Research (CSSR) Programme
Macleod, Catriona 1963- (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology