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Female sterilization, tubal ligation

Bolivia

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Gendered Power Relations and Informed Consent: The I.V. v. Bolivia Case [2018]

Brazil

• Social Sciences
  • Profile of Female Sterilization in Brazil [2019]

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women [2021]

• Ontario Health
  • Hysteroscopic tubal sterilization: an evidence-based analysis [2013]
  • Hysteroscopic tubal sterilization: a health economic literature review [2013]

High-income countries

• Reproductive Health
  • Comparing options for females seeking permanent contraception in high resource countries: a systematic review [2021]

India

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Sterilization incentives and associated regret among ever married women in India, NFHS, 2015-16 [2022]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Examining the access to benefits and quality sterilization services among Muslim women in India : Evidence from the fifth round of the national family health survey (2019-2021) [2024]
  • The trends of female sterilization in India: an age period cohort analysis approach [2022]
  • Pattern and correlates of out-of-pocket payment (OOP) on female sterilization in India, 1990–2014 [2020]

• International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research
  • Female sterilization failure: Review over a decade and its clinicopathological correlation [2014]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
  • A Study on the Reversal of Sterilisation in Women Over Two Decades [2012]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Reference manual for female sterilization [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors explaining the dominion status of female sterilization in India over the past two decades (1992-2016): A multilevel study [2021]
  • Quality of care in sterilization services at the public health facilities in India: A multilevel analysis [2020]

• Studies in Family Planning
  • Unwanted Family Planning Including Unwanted Sterilization: Preliminary Prevalence Estimates for India [2024]

International

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Informed consent and ethical issues pertaining to female sterilization-Scoping review [2025]

• Public Health Reviews
  • Forced sterilization of women as discrimination [2017]

Netherlands

• Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
  • Dutch Nationwide Multicenter Prospective Cohort of Essure-Related Symptomatology After Removal Surgery [2025]

Rwanda

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and factors associated with female sterilization in Rwanda: evidence from the demographic and health survey data (2019-2020) [2023]

South Africa

• South African Medical Journal
  • Obtaining informed consent for a sterilisation in the light of recent case law [2018]

Uganda

• Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  • Determinants of female sterilization method uptake among women of reproductive age group in Uganda [2020]

United Kingdom

• British Journal of Cancer
  • Tubal ligation and incidence of 26 site-specific cancers in the Million Women Study [2016]

• Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients [2024]

• Right Decisions
  • Female sterilisation for contraception request

United States

• AMA Journal of Ethics
  • How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? [2021]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Permanent Contraception: Ethical Issues and Considerations [2024]
  • Access to Postpartum Sterilization [2021]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Trends in permanent contraceptive procedural volume in the United States between 2019 and 2020 [2023]

• American Journal of Perinatology
  • Racial Disparities in Sterilization Procedure Performed at Time of Cesarean Section [2024]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Sterilization in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) Detention: Ethical Failures and Systemic Injustice [2021]

• Contraception
  • Variation in the interpretation and application of the Medicaid sterilization consent form among Medicaid officials [2022]
  • Variation by state in Medicaid sterilization policies for physician reimbursement [2021]
  • COVID-19 highlights the policy barriers and complexities of postpartum sterilization [2021]

• Journal of Women's Health
  • Tubal Sterilization and Cervical Cancer Underscreening in the United States [2024]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Medicaid and Fulfillment of Postpartum Permanent Contraception Requests [2023]
  • Association Among Race, Ethnicity, Insurance Type, and Postpartum Permanent Contraception Fulfillment [2023]
  • Website Review of Variation in Individual State Medicaid Sterilization Policies [2021]
  • Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Practices in Postpartum Sterilization Without a Valid Medicaid Consent Form [2021]
  • Female Sterilization and Cognitive Disability in the United States, 2011–2015 [2018]

• Open Access Journal of Contraception
  • Efficacy of Tubal Surgery for Permanent Contraception: Considerations for the Clinician [2023]

• Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Changing Educational Differentials in Female Sterilization [2020]

• Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  • What happened to quinacrine non-surgical female sterilization? [2021]

• StatPearls
  • Tubal Sterilization

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • The safety of quinacrine when used as a method of non-surgical sterilization in women : interim statement [2009]

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