Family Planning Perspectives articles from July 1998

Family Planning Perspectives archives from July 1998

Clinic provision of contraceptive services to managed care enrollees.
July 1, 1998... 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...

Sex, contraception and childbearing among high-risk youth: do different factors influence males and females?
July 1, 1998... Context: The likelihood that adolescents will engage in sexual activity, use contraceptives or become parents is influenced by a range of attitudes and behaviors. These factors may differ for males and females. Methods: Data on female...

Sexual behavior among U.S. high school students, 1990-1995.
July 1, 1998... Context: High rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV infection, among adolescents are major public health concerns that have created interest in trends in teenage sexual activity. Methods:...

Small-area analysis: targeting high-risk areas for adolescent pregnancy prevention programs.
July 1, 1998... Context: Traditional methods of identifying areas in need of adolescent pregnancy prevention programs may miss small localities with high levels of adolescent childbearing. Methods: Birthrates for 15-17-year-olds were computed for ail...

Issues in statutory rape law enforcement: the views of district attorneys in Kansas.
July 1, 1998... Context: The 1996 federal we/fare reform law calls for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy rates through aggressive enforcement of statutory rape laws at the local and state level. Yet there are few quantitative data on district attorneys'...

Prenatal care, birth outcomes and newborn hospitalization costs: patterns among Hispanics in New Jersey.
July 1, 1998... Context: With the influx of Latin American immigrants to the United States and the relatively high fertility of Hispanic women, the importance of understanding patterns of birth outcomes within the heterogeneous Hispanic community is growing....

School-based sexuality education: the issues and challenges.
July 1, 1998... In fall 1997, the Franklin County, North Carolina, school board ordered chapters on sexual behavior, contraception and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) cut out of its health textbook for ninth graders. The deleted material,...

Prenatal care use and birth outcomes of low-income women improve after Medicaid expansion in Florida.
July 1, 1998... When Florida extended Medicaid eligibility to low-income pregnant women, use of prenatal care increased and birth outcomes improved. After the eligibility expansion, low-income women became more likely to obtain prenatal care and less likely to...

Level of contraceptive use is moderate among Romanians aged 15-24.
July 1, 1998... Romania is still largely a traditional society, in which men become sexually active at earlier ages, have more partners and marry later than women; however, young urban women am more likely to have premarital sex and tend to marry at later ages...

Birthrates among teenagers are unaffected when states require parental involvement in their abortion decisions.
July 1, 1998... Enforcement of laws mandating parental involvement in teenagers' abortion decisions was not associated with increased birthrates for minors in three states with data available for periods both before and during implementation of such...

Pill users' odds of stroke are reduced by screening for cardiovascular risks.
July 1, 1998... Although the incidence of stroke is low overall among women of reproductive age, European women who use the pill are 3.6 times as likely as nonusers to experience an ischemic stroke[1] Users of oral contraceptives containing a high amount of...

Most teenagers who obtain prenatal care at public clinics discontinue substance use early in pregnancy.
July 1, 1998... Almost all teenage women attending public prenatal clinics used at least one substance--usually cigarettes or alcohol--in the six months prior to becoming pregnant, although the majority discontinue use during their first trimester. Whites are...

After abortion, women who have never had an ectopic pregnancy may be at increased risk of having one.
July 1, 1998... Women with no history of ectopic pregnancy who have had an induced abortion may have an elevated risk of ectopic pregnancy, a potentially life-threatening condition in which implantation occurs outside the uterus. Furthermore, according to an...