Emergency hormonal contraception: The community pharmacy perspective

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 203-208

  Seston, E M ^a   Holden, K ^a   Cantrill, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; LEVONELLE 2; LEVONORGESTREL; DRUGS, NON PRESCRIPTION; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; ATTITUDE; DRUG LEGISLATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL, HORMONAL; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN; LEGISLATION, DRUG; PHARMACISTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0035201950     PISSN: 14711893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1783/147118901101195768     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Improving access to emergency contraception: Allowing pharmacy sales should help reduce unwanted pregnancies
2. Emergency contraception: A review of the programmatic and social science literature
3. Mixed reaction to EHC announcement
4. Community pharmacist and general practitioner attitudes to the deregulation of emergency contraception
5. Pharmacists concerns and perceived benefits from the deregulation of hormonal emergency contraception (HEC)
6. Pharmacists' views on deregulating emergency hormonal contraception
7. Patients, society and the increase in self-medication
8. Supplying emergency hormonal contraception in Manchester under a group prescribing protocol
9. New legislation paves the way for patient group directions
10. A review of factors that influence the use of community pharmacies as a primary health care resource
11. Emergency contraception, weekends and bank holidays: Improving access through co-operation between hospital and community-based services
12. A consumer survey of the availability of hormonal postcoital contraception in the North West Region
13. Women's' knowledge and awareness of emergency contraception
14. Women's experiences of obtaining emergency contraception: A phenomenological study
15. Knowledge and use of secondary contraception among patients requesting termination of pregnancy
16. Emergency contraception - Why women don't use it
17. "It's a mega dose of hormones, isn't it?" Why women may be reluctant to use emergency contraception
18. Over-the-counter EHC: A survey of pharmacists' and general practitioners' knowledge, use and views
19. The effects of self-administering emergency contraception
20. Council reaffirms policy on EHC
21. Timing of emergency contraception with levonorgestrel or the Yuzpe regimen
22. Health professionals' attitudes to the deregulation of emergency contraception (or the problem of female sexuality)
23. Emergency hormonal contraception usage in GUM clinic attenders
24. Audit of an emergency contraception service
25. Emergency contraception: Advance provision in a young. High-risk clinic population
26. Repeated use of hormonal emergency contraception by younger women in the UK