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Perspectives from the pandemic epicenter: Sexual and reproductive health of immigrant women in New York City.
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Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health [Perspect Sex Reprod Health] 2024 Jun; Vol. 56 (2), pp. 136-146. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 03. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Context: The United States' response to COVID-19 created a policy, economic, and healthcare provision environment that had implications for the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of racialized and minoritized communities. Perspectives from heterogenous immigrant communities in New York City, the pandemic epicenter in the United States (US), provides a glimpse into how restrictive social policy environments shape contraception, abortion, pregnancy preferences, and other aspects of SRH for marginalized immigrant communities.<br />Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews in 2020 and 2021 with 44 cisgender immigrant women from different national origins and 19 direct service providers for immigrant communities in New York City to explore how immigrants were forced to adapt their SRH preferences and behaviors to the structural barriers of the COVID-19 pandemic. We coded and analyzed the interviews using a constant comparative approach.<br />Results: Pandemic-related fears and structural barriers to healthcare access shaped shifts in contraceptive use and preferences among our participants. Immigrant women weighed their concerns for health and safety and the potential of facing discrimination as part of their contraceptive preferences. Immigrants also described shifts in their pregnancy preferences as rooted in concerns for their health and safety and economic constraints unique to immigrant communities.<br />Conclusion: Understanding how immigrant women's SRH shifted in response to the structural and policy constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic can reveal how historically marginalized communities will be impacted by an increasingly restrictive reproductive health and immigration policy landscape.<br /> (© 2024 The Authors. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of University of Ottawa.)
- Subjects :
- Humans
New York City epidemiology
Female
Adult
Pregnancy
SARS-CoV-2
Contraception
Contraception Behavior ethnology
Contraception Behavior psychology
Young Adult
Pandemics
Middle Aged
Interviews as Topic
Qualitative Research
COVID-19 ethnology
COVID-19 epidemiology
Emigrants and Immigrants psychology
Emigrants and Immigrants statistics & numerical data
Sexual Health ethnology
Reproductive Health ethnology
Health Services Accessibility
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1931-2393
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38571367
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.12260