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Introduction.
January 1, 1999... Because American women want only two children, on average, they require contraceptive protection for most of their reproductive lives--typically, more than two decades. Given the many years that women are sexually active but do not want to have...

Title X and the U.S. Family Planning Effort. (Issues in Brief).
January 1, 1999... Although a woman's ability to become pregnant spans almost half her lifetime, American women today typically want only two children--a goal that, for most, is unrealistic without contraception. One of the United States' key public health goals...

Contraceptive Services. (Facts in Brief).
January 1, 1999... WHO NEEDS SERVICES? * 63 million U.S. women are in the child bearing ages of 13-44; 12 million of these (20%) are 13-19, 18 million (29%) 20-29 and 32 million (51%) 30-44. * Over 1/2 of women 13--44(33 million) are in need of...

Contraceptive Use. (Facts in Brief).
January 1, 1999... Who Needs Contraception? * 60 million U.S. women are in their childbearing years (15-44). * 15% of these women are aged 15-19, 15% are 20-24, 34% are 25-34 and 36% are 35-44. * 30 million are married (49%), 23 million have never...

Contraception Counts: State-by-State Information. (Issyes in Brief).
January 1, 1999... Americans, by and large, want--and do have--small families: two children, on average. The preference for small families is universal in modem societies, and is also shared by much of the developing world, where contraceptives are becoming more...

Family Planning Clinic Services In the United States, 1994. (ARTICLES).
January 1, 1999... In 1994, almost 6.6 million women received contraceptive services from more than 7,000 subsidized family planning clinics; these providers were located in 85% of US. counties. Health department clinics and Planned Parenthood sites served the...

Taking Family Planning Services To Hard-to-Reach Populations. (SPECIAL REPORT).
January 1, 1999... In a 1995 survey of the nation's 3,119 family planning agencies, three-quarters of those questioned reported that they provide contraceptive services to such hard-to-reach populations as substance abusers, incarcerated men and women, the...

Private Physicians' Provision of Contraceptive Services.
January 1, 1999... Private physicians provide family planning services to the majority of American women. According to data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey office-based physicians received on average 13.5 million visits annually for contraceptive...

Public Health Departments Providing Sexually Transmitted Disease Services.
January 1, 1999... Results of a 1995 survey reveal that 1,437 local health departments--half of those in the country--provide sexually transmitted disease (STD) services and receive about two million client visits each year. Their clients are predominantly...

The Provision of Public-Sector Services By Family Planning Agencies in 1995. (ARTOCLES).
January 1, 1999... Results from a 1995 survey of a nationally representative sample of 603 publicly funded family planning agencies reveal that 96% rely on federal funding, 60% on state funding and 40% on local funding to provide family planning and other...

Preface.
January 1, 1999... Contraceptive and other reproductive health needs and services are important concerns in the United States--for the individuals and couples involved as well as the country as a whole. Most women and men are sexually active from their teenage...

State and County Estimates of Contraceptive Needs and Services, 1995.
January 1, 1999... This report presents updated estimates by state and county of the numbers of women needing contraceptive services and supplies, according to their age and income level. The report also presents state and county data on the availability of...

Family Planning Annual Report: 1997 Summary.
January 1, 1999... DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICAL REPORT I. INTRODUCTION All grantees receiving funding under the federal Title X program are required to submit annual service data. The responsibility for collection and tabulation of annual service data from...

The Impact of Publicly Funded Family Planning. (Issues in Brief).
January 1, 1999... Almost one in four of the 21 million women in the United States using some form of reversible contraception rely on public funds for their contraceptive care. Each year, publicly funded family planning helps 1.3 million women avoid an...

Public Funding for Contraceptive, Sterilization And Abortion Services, 1994.
January 1, 1999... In 1994, federal and state funding for contraceptive services and supplies reached $715 million. Funding totaled $l48 million for contraceptive sterilization and $90 million for abortion services. According to a survey of state health, Medicaid...

Impact of Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services On Unintended Pregnancies and Implications For Medicaid Expenditures. (ARTICLES).
January 1, 1999... Of U.S. women who use a reversible method of contraception, 24% each year obtain family planning services from a publicly funded clinic or a private doctor reimbursed by Medicaid. If these subsidized contraceptive services were not available,...

Direct Access for Women In Managed Care Plans. (Special Analysis).
January 1, 1999... American women repeatedly have expressed the view that reproductive health care is basic care to which they should have "direct access"--that is, without first having to get permission either from a managed care plan or from a primary care...

Clinic Provision of Contraceptive Services to Managed Care Enrollees. (Articles).
January 1, 1999... Context: Since the initiation of managed health care, little information has been available on whether family planning agencies are seeking ways to serve (and obtain reimbursement for serving) the growing number of clients who are managed care...

When Plans Opt Out: Family Planning Access In Medicaid Managed Care. (Special Analysis).
January 1, 1999... New York State is taking a variety of steps to ensure that Medicaid recipients have access to family planning services if the managed care plan in which they are enrolled declines for religious reasons to provide them. Its efforts illustrate...

Lessons Learned: The Managed Care Experiences of Family Planning Providers.
January 1, 1999... This article examines key opportunities and obstacles facing community-based family planning agencies seeking to be "players" in the provision of contraceptive and related services in the managed care context. Based on telephone interviews with...

Men at Family Planning Clinics: The New Patients? (Special Report).
January 1, 1999... The overwhelming majority of family planning clients in the United States axe women. A recent Urban Institute survey of publicly funded family planning clinics found that in only 13% of clinics do male patients comprise more than 10% of the...

Young Men's Experience with Condom Breakage.
January 1, 1999... (Family Planning Perspectives, 29:128-131 & 140,1997) In a nationally representative sample of men aged 17-22,23% of those using condoms reported experiencing at least one condom break during the previous 12 months. Of all condoms used,...

Increased Condom Use Among Teenage Males, 1988-1995: The Role of Attitudes.
January 1, 1999... Context: Understanding whether and to what degree changes in young men's attitudes explain increases in condom use over time can be useful in developing more effective disease prevention strategies. Methods: Data from the 1988 and the 1995...

Teenagers' Right to Consent To Reproductive Health Care. (Issues in Brief).
January 1, 1999... For sexually active adolescents who will not seek birth control if they have to inform their parents or have their parents' consent, access to confidential family planning services is essential to avoiding an unplanned pregnancy. Federal and...

Major Developments in the States: 1997. (Special Analysis).
January 1, 1999... Whether the issue was "partial-birth" abortion, contraceptive insurance coverage, Medicaid expansions for family planning or prevention of teenage and out-of-wedlock births, last years most significant reproductive health-related developments...

The New Children's Health Insurance Program. (Special Analysis).
January 1, 1999... Targeted at uninsured, low-income individuals through age 18, the federally mandated State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be structured and administered largely by the states. Depending on the eligibility and program design...

Falling Teen Pregnancy, Birthrates: What's Behind the Declines? (Special Analysis).
January 1, 1999... The statistics are familiar: Nearly one million U.S. teenagers become pregnant each year and about 500,000 give birth. For more than two decades, these figures have helped to define one of the country's major social problems. But now, after...