Week 5 homework 11/24/2013

1. One category of birth control is Fertility Awareness-Based Methods. What are the different methods involved and how effective is this category.
Temperature Method — You will take your temperature in the morning every day before you get out of bed.
Cervical Mucus Method — You will check the changes in your cervical mucus every day for the first part of your cycle until you are sure you have ovulated.
Calendar Method — You will chart your cycles on a calendar.
The best way is to combine all these methods. When they are combined they are called the symptothermal method

2. 'Birth control' is any thing that stop a woman or girl from becoming pregnant, or giving birth. Birth control can mean a wide range of things – from 'contraceptives' (used to reduce the chances of a woman becoming pregnant) to other ways of avoiding pregnancy, like not having sex. Contraceptives work by preventing a man’s sperm from fertilizing a woman’s egg, and can be done in several different ways. Students typically have a problem in distinguishing the difference between these two. Describe at least two methods of each and then explain why these are so easily confused.
Two main types of contraception:
Depo Provera which causes the woman to not have a cycle for three months and block the sperm from getting to the egg and another method is the birth control patch which is changed weekly.

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Other types of contraception’s are surgical procedures like the man having a vasectomy or the woman having her tubes tied. The difference between these methods are the contraceptives that have to remember to be injected or attached to the skin can make you become pregnant if you forget but the surgical procedures are suppose to last a lifetime.

3. Between 2001 and 2007 the rate of incidence of Chlamydia occurrence has increased by about 35% in the US with Mississippi having the highest numbers. To what can you attribute this? This question requires thought and an insightful answer, not just a few sentences.
For starters Chlamydia also known as the clap can go unnoticed. Mississippi is considered one of our poorest states, so lack of sex education can be one of the main reasons. Other factors that can possible play a factor in this are people not using proper protection, Mississippi growing, and racial diversity. Mississippi may not teach their young adults that much about sex and protection, so these individuals get curious and experiment more without thinking it all the way through.