Using Cluster Analyses in a Multi-Scaled Review of Policy Inequities: Evaluating European Sub-regional Differences in Technologically Assisted Reproduction
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems
, Medical and Health Geography
, Legal Geography
Keywords: multi-scaled analyses, reproductive technology governance, policy equity, European sub-region
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 11:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 12:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 33
Authors:
Shelley Grant, Seattle ITD, University of Washington
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Abstract
This paper presents results of cluster analyses on policy similarities among 40 European-area countries where 1 347 clinical providers expect to resume globally high pre-pandemic levels of 918 519 technologically assisted reproduction techniques and diagnostics (ART) (Wyns et al. 2020). Despite the regionwide robustness of this specialized health sector, some suspect that the effects of national ART policy variations, caused in part by EC protections for citizens’ health travel interests and the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, include the discrimination of unmarried and/or non-heterosexual patients responding to domestically limited or banned care electives (Shenfield, et al. 2010, Calhaz-Jorge, et al. 2020). Using layered maps of McNemar’s test results on EIM, ESHE and ICMART infertility monitor data to verify patterns of inequity in the categorical strength of policy permissions and assistance, this study seeks to confirm concerns on complex policy impact and to consider the multi-scaled dynamics of ART policies on patient options formed by national terms, governing principles, regional equity agendas and broader humanitarian concerns.
Using Cluster Analyses in a Multi-Scaled Review of Policy Inequities: Evaluating European Sub-regional Differences in Technologically Assisted Reproduction
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