Family Planning Perspectives articles from May 1998

Family Planning Perspectives archives from May 1998

Is Medicaid pronatalist? The effect of eligibility expansions on abortions and births.
May 1, 1998... Context: Income thresholds for Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women were raised in two phases between 1987 and 1991. During roughly the same period, the U.S. fertility rate rose and the abortion rate declined; changes were particularly marked...

Contraceptive practices and trends in France.
May 1, 1998... Context: Contraceptive use has been legal in France for the past 30 years, and patterns of use changed substantially from the 1960s to the 1980s. Given the rapidity with which use patterns change and the possible impact of rising concern about...

Gender and ethnic differences in the timing of first sexual intercourse.
May 1, 1998... Context: Whether the effect of gender on the risk of first intercourse is influenced by adolescents' ethnicity has received limited attention in research on age at first sex. Such information could provide a more complete understanding of...

Correction. ('Maternal age and birth outcomes: data from New Jersey' 1997, vol. 29, issue 6)(Correction Notice)
May 1, 1998... In "Maternal Age and Birth Outcomes: Data from New Jersey," by Nancy E. Reichman and Deanna L. Pagnini [1997, 29(6):268-272 & 295], the "New Jersey black" and "United States white" columns of data in Table 1 (p. 269) were transposed. The...

Measuring the extent of abortion underreporting in the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.
May 1, 1998... Context: Induced abortions are often severely underreported in national surveys, hampering the estimation and analysis of unintended pregnancies. To improve the level of abortion reporting, the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)...

Factors influencing the delivery of abortion services in Ontario: a descriptive study. (Ontario, Canada)
May 1, 1998... Context: Although Canadian women have had the right to obtain legal induced abortions for the past decade, access to the procedure is still limited and controversial in many areas. Methods: Chiefs of obstetrics and gynecology, chiefs of staff,...

Family planning service provision in rural areas: a survey in Washington State.
May 1, 1998... Context: Women in rural areas are highly dependent on public clinics for family planning services, yet little information has been collected on rural family planning providers, especially on their funding and operation. Methods: All 31 family...

Studying parental involvement in school-based sex education: lessons learned.
May 1, 1998... Carol Weiss, an influential figure in program evaluation, has written that "only with sensitivity to the politics of evaluation research... can the evaluator be as creative and strategically useful as he should be."[1] This is true for all...

Women's birth weight and intrauterine nutrition may have an effect on their infants' birth weight.
May 1, 1998... A woman's own birth weight and the conditions of her fetal environment may influence her children's birth weight, according to results from two analyses of intergenerational factors in pregnancy outcomes. An examination of Illinois vital records...

Adolescents with sexually active older siblings are likely to have sex early.
May 1, 1998... Older siblings' behavior, but not their attitudes or the behavior and attitudes of their friends, influences the sexual behavior of younger siblings. Adolescents with sexually active older siblings are 2.5 times as likely to be having sex as...

Birth weight is lower among infants of U.S.-born than African-born blacks.
May 1, 1998... Infants born to black women in the United States weigh less at birth, on average, than those born to white women, but the difference is considerably smaller if the black infants' mothers were born in Africa than if they were U.S.-born. Rates of...

While nationwide birthrate is stable, black women achieve a record low and teenagers' rates decline.
May 1, 1998... The U.S. fertility rate barely changed between 1995 and 1996, but the rate for black women declined to an all-time low, according to a preliminary report on births and deaths from the National Center for Health Statistics.[1] Teenagers' birthrate...

Delinquency and young fatherhood share some, but not all, risk factors.
May 1, 1998... Young men who do poorly in school and who live in a bad neighborhood have elevated odds both of becoming teenage fathers and of engaging in delinquent behavior, but each of these outcomes is also influenced by separate risk factors, according to...

HIV is on the rise among pregnant women in London, yet few have prenatal test. (HIV-1)
May 1, 1998... The prevalence of HIV-1 infection among pregnant women in London rose sharply between 1988 and 1996, but was unchanging and much lower among women in Scotland and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, according to an analysis of national surveillance...