ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2019
Contraceptive Desert? Black-White Differences in Characteristics of Nearby Pharmacies.
Article in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Spatiotemporal analysis of contraceptive deserts and adolescent fertility clusters in South Asia: A spatial econometric approach to breaking intergenerational poverty cycles.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Pharmacy deserts and health inequities in St. Louis City: a geospatial analysis of access disparities and determinants.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A Mixed-Methods Examination of Fertility Desires and Reproductive Planning Among Low-Income Black Fathers.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- The Role of Race in Pregnancy, Hypertension, and Long-Term Outcomes.Current cardiology reports · 2025Review
- Contraceptive Use Among Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Coercion: The Moderating Role of PTSD and Depression.Violence against women · 2024Article
- Estimates of use of preferred contraceptive method in the United States: a population-based study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
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- Objection or Obstacle: Applying Amartya Sen's Capability Approach to the Conscientious Refusal of Emergency Contraception.International journal of feminist approaches to bioethics · 2022Article
- Pharmacy Implementation of a New Law Allowing Year-Long Hormonal Contraception Supplies.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Context: Decade in Review, 2020.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- Pharmacy Deserts and Pharmacies' Roles Post-Extreme Weather and Climate Events in the United States: A Scoping Review.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesRace differences in contraceptive use and in geographic access to pharmacies are well established. We explore race differences in characteristics of nearby pharmacies that are likely to facilitate (or not) contraceptive purchase. STUDY
designWe conducted analyses with two geocode-linked datasets: (1) the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) project, a study of a random sample of 1003 women ages 18-19 living in a county in Michigan in 2008-09; and (2) the Community Pharmacy Survey, which collected data on 82 pharmacies in the county in which the RDSL study was conducted.
resultsAlthough young African-American women tend to live closer to pharmacies than their white counterparts (1.2 miles to the nearest pharmacy for African Americans vs. 2.1 miles for whites), those pharmacies tend to be independent pharmacies (59 vs. 16%) that are open fewer hours per week (64.6 vs. 77.8) and have fewer female pharmacists (17 vs. 50%), fewer patient brochures on contraception (2 vs. 5%), more difficult access to condoms (49% vs. 85% on the shelf instead of behind glass, behind the counter, or not available), and fewer self-check-out options (3 vs. 9%). More African-American than white women live near African-American pharmacists (8 vs. 3%). These race differences are regardless of poverty, measured by the receipt of public assistance.
conclusionsRelative to white women, African-American women may face a "contraception desert," wherein they live nearer to pharmacies, but those pharmacies have characteristics that may impede the purchase of contraception.
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