Family Planning Strategies - Tutorial & Mastery Test
Write the advantages and disadvantages of hormone-based contraceptive methods such as birth control pills, implants, and a patch.
Birth control pills, implants, and patches are hormonal contraception. The advantages of this type of contraception are: No interruption of foreplay or intercourse reduced pain during ovulation. While some of the disadvantages are: hormonal contraception does not protect against sexually transmitted infections or HIV, May delay return of normal cycles, pills must be taken every day, the patch can be seen, the patch can cause skin irritation.
Which of the following is an advantage of a condom as a method of birth control?
It helps prevent the spread of STIs.
What happens in an ectopic pregnancy?
The fertilized egg is not implanted in the uterus and starts growing outside of it.
Determine which contraceptive method you would use for each of the following cases, and explain why.
a. every solution besides permanent b. hormone-based contraceptive c. morning-after pill d. condom, diaphragm, female condom, spermicide e.fertility awareness
Which form of birth control could people use without altering hormonal systems or blocking sperm from fertilizing an egg?
fertility awareness
Which of these is a permanent birth control method used by women?
sterilization
Read more about contraceptive methods here. You can click the various links on this website for more details. Then fill in the missing information in this table, which lists some contraceptive methods and how they work.
type of method fill in: behavioral; behavioral; hormonal; barrier; barrier; hormonal; permanent How it works fill in: hormones suppress the release of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) from the pituitary gland in the female body.; similarly to birth control
Which organ is designed to hold and nourish the fetus until the end of a pregnancy?
uterus