Family planning

PubMed Free Full Text

Hormonal contraception

Australia

• NSW Health
  • NSW pharmacist practice standards for the continuation of hormonal contraception

• Queensland Health
  • Hormonal contraception - Clinical practice guideline

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Hormonal Contraception. Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG (S3 Level, AWMF Registry Number 015/015, January 2020) [2021]

Canada

• BMC Women's Health
  • Changes in Canadian contraceptive choices: results of a national survey on hormonal contraceptive use [2025]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Menstrual Suppression in Special Circumstances [2019]
  • Canadian Contraception Consensus Part 4 of 4 Chapter 9: Combined Hormonal Contraception [2017]
  • Canadian Contraception Consensus (Part 3 of 4): Chapter 8 – Progestin-Only Contraception [2016]

Denmark

• BMJ
  • Stroke and myocardial infarction with contemporary hormonal contraception: real-world, nationwide, prospective cohort study [2025]
  • Venous thromboembolism with use of hormonal contraception and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: nationwide cohort study [2023]

Estonia

• PLoS Medicine
  • Prescribed hormonal contraceptive use trends in the Estonian Biobank: A longitudinal observational study [2026]

Ethiopia

• BMJ Open
  • Assessing the effect of concerns about contraceptive-induced fertility impairment on hormonal contraceptive use by parity and residence: evidence from PMA Ethiopia 2020 cross-sectional survey [2024]

Europe

• European Medicines Agency
  • Combined hormonal contraceptives

• Journal of Headache and Pain
  • Effect of exogenous estrogens and progestogens on the course of migraine during reproductive age: a consensus statement by the European Headache Federation (EHF) and the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESCRH) [2018]
  • Hormonal contraceptives and risk of ischemic stroke in women with migraine: a consensus statement from the European Headache Federation (EHF) and the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESC) [2017]

Finland

• BMJ Open
  • Associations between use of psychotropic medications and use of hormonal contraception among girls and women aged 15-49 years in Finland: a nationwide, register-based, matched case-control study [2022]

• European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Use of systemic hormonal contraception and risk of depression: a registry-based study from Finland [2025]
  • Hormonal contraceptive use and anaemia: a nation-wide pharmacoepidemiological study from Northern Europe [2025]

Ghana

• Contraception
  • Hormonal contraceptive use in Ghana: The role of method attributes and side effects in method choice and continuation [2021]

International

• Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Common myths and misconceptions surrounding hormonal contraception [2025]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Assessing the impact of contraceptive use on mental health among women of reproductive age - a systematic review [2024]

• Clinical Oral Investigations
  • Oral manifestations in women using hormonal contraceptive methods: a systematic review [2024]

• Contraception
  • Combined hormonal contraceptive use among women with known dyslipidemias: a systematic review of critical safety outcomes [2015]

• European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
  • Assessing the impact of hormonal contraceptive use on menstrual health among women of reproductive age - a systematic review [2024]

• Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • Acceptability and Satisfaction of Contraceptive Vaginal Rings in Clinical Studies: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis [2021]

• Pharmaceuticals
  • Hormonal Contraception and Bone Metabolism: Emerging Evidence from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies on Post-Pubertal and Reproductive-Age Women [2025]

• Scientific Reports
  • Hormonal contraceptive use and the risk of sexually transmitted infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Ireland

• British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Hormonal contraceptive use in Ireland: trends and co-prescribing practices [2015]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Family planning and nutrition: systematic review of the effects of family planning on nutritional status of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • Vaginal ring acceptability and related preferences among women in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis [2019]

Netherlands

• Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Hormonal contraceptive use after a first venous thrombotic event and the risk of recurrence in premenopausal women [2024]

Nordic countries

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Birth and abortion rates among young women over the past 50 years examined in relation to providers and reimbursement for hormonal contraception across the Nordic countries, an ecological study [2026]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Research Notes
  • Hormonal contraceptive use among women living with hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa: insights from 12 countries [2024]

Sweden

• BMJ Open
  • Hormonal contraception and the risk of suicidal behaviour: a Swedish nationwide register-based study [2025]

United Kingdom

• College of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
  • Combined Hormonal Contraception

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • General Approaches to Medical Management of Menstrual Suppression [2022]
  • Over-the-Counter Access to Hormonal Contraception [2019]

• American Family Physician
  • Initiating Hormonal Contraception [2021]

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Combined hormonal contraception and the risk of venous thromboembolism: a guideline [2017]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Combined Hormonal Contraceptives

• Food and Drug Administration
  • Labeling for Combined Hormonal Contraceptives Guidance for Industry

• JAMA Health Forum
  • Twelve-Month Contraceptive Supply Policies and Medicaid Contraceptive Dispensing [2024]

Western countries

• CMAJ Open
  • Regulatory approval time for hormonal contraception in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, 2000-2015: a retrospective data analysis [2016]

• Contraception
  • Pharmacist-prescribed contraception using clinical protocols: A review of the gray literature [2025]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO statement on hormonal contraception and bone health [2005]

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Oral contraceptives
  • Male contraception, men and family planning
  • Intrauterine device (IUD)
  • Injectable contraceptives
  • Family planning, contraception
  • Emergency contraception
  • Contraceptive implants