Family Planning Perspectives articles from March 1997

Family Planning Perspectives archives from March 1997

The effects of economic conditions and access to reproductive health services on state abortion rates and birthrates.
March 1, 1997... Policy discussions concerning factors that influence reproductive behavior reach a level of intensity seldom matched by other matters of public discourse. Especially controversial have been discussions regarding the effects of Medicaid funding...

Corrections. (correction to 'The effectiveness of the Yuzpe regimen of emergency contraception' in vol. 28, pp. 58-64 and 87)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 1997... In "Determinants of Early Implant Discontinuation Among Low-Income Women" [28:256-260], by Debra Kalmuss et al., Table 4 (p. 259) shows logistic regression coefficients, not odds. The heading should read: Logistic regression coefficients...

Corrections. (correction to 'Determinants of early implant discontinuation among low-income women,' vol. 28, pp. 256-260)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 1997... In "The Effectiveness of the Yuzpe Regimen of Emergency Contraception" [28:58-64 & 87], by James Trussell, Charlotte Ellertson and Felicia Stewart, the number of women listed in Table 3 (p. 61) as having been treated in the Percival-Smith et al....

Age differences between minors who give birth and their adult partners.
March 1, 1997... During the last decade, researchers began questioning the assumption that the sexual partners of teenage mothers were necessarily teenagers themselves.[1] Recently, studies have indicated that a majority of babies born to teenage girls were...

Consistency of condom use among users of injectable contraceptives.
March 1, 1997... The approval of depot-medroxy-progesterone acetate (DMPA) by the Food and Drug Administration in October 1992 marked the 1990s as a decade of new and expanded family planning alternatives for women. DMPA, a progesterone-only injectable...

Public knowledge and perceptions about unplanned pregnancy and contraception in three countries. (United States, Canada and the Netherlands)
March 1, 1997... Unplanned pregnancy rates vary dramatically across developed countries Reproductive health experts, sociologists and politicians are eager to understand why the rate of unplanned pregnancy is so much higher in the United States than in other...

Pregnancy wantedness and adverse pregnancy outcomes: differences by race and Medicaid status.
March 1, 1997... While there have been notable improvements in U.S. infant mortality and morbidity rates over the past decade, the United States still lags behind most other industrialized countries, having much higher levels of infant mortality.[1] Rates of low...

Environmental effects on reproductive health: the endocrine disruption hypothesis.
March 1, 1997... Reproductive health is exquisitely sensitive to characteristics of an individual's environment - including physical, biological, behavioral, cultural and socioeconomic factors. The relative effects of these features may vary in different parts of...

Confronting a hidden epidemic: the Institute of Medicine's report on sexually transmitted diseases.
March 1, 1997... An estimated 12 million Americans acquire a sexually transmitted disease (STD) every year. More than 25 different infectious organisms can be transmitted sexually, and five STDs - chlamydia, gonorrhea, AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B - are among...

Does abortion increase the risk of breast cancer? Results of a meta-analysis and a cohort study differ.
March 1, 1997... Two recent studies have come to opposite conclusions regarding a possible link between induced abortion and breast cancer. The first, a meta-analysis based on data from 23 studies conducted in 11 countries, found that induced abortion...

Physicians often omit sexual health services from adolescents' care.
March 1, 1997... California physicians who routinely see adolescents often do not provide them a high level of sexual health-related preventive care: Forty percent screen all of their adolescent patients to determine if they are sexually active, and 31% furnish...

In post-Soviet Russia, fertility is on the decline; marriage and childbearing are occurring earlier.
March 1, 1997... Russia's total fertility rate, which hovered around two lifetime births per woman from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, has dropped steeply since 1987, falling to 1.4 births per woman in 1994. This decline has been accompanied by a trend...

In intact poor families, parents affect teenagers' well-being unequally.
March 1, 1997... In poor two-parent families, fathers' emotional and physical availability to their children provides little protection from adverse adolescent outcomes. Mothers' emotional or behavioral involvement does significantly reduce the likelihood that...

Pill-related stroke risk is low, especially if users lack other risk factors.
March 1, 1997... The risk of stroke associated with the use of combined oral contraceptives by women in both developed and developing countries is largely determined by users' other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Pill users who are younger than 35, do...