Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This report provides recommendations developed collaboratively by CDC and the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) of the U.S. providing sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening and treatment services to prevent tubal infertility and improve the health of women, men, and infants.providing preconception health services to improve infant and maternal outcomes and improve women's and men's health and.offering pregnancy testing and counseling.providing contraception to help women and men plan and space births, prevent unintended pregnancies, and reduce the number of abortions.Family planning services include the following: Moreover, all of these outcomes affect racial and ethnic minority populations disproportionately ( 1–4).įamily planning services can help address these and other public health challenges by providing education, counseling, and medical services ( 5). Approximately one of eight pregnancies in the United States results in a preterm birth, and infant mortality rates remain high compared with other developed countries ( 3,4). Although adolescent birth rates declined by more than 61% during 1991–2012, the United States has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the developed world, with >700,000 adolescents aged 15–19 years becoming pregnant each year and >300,000 giving birth ( 2,3). Nearly half (49%) of all pregnancies are unintended ( 1). The United States continues to face challenges to improving the reproductive health of the U.S.
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The report provides recommendations for how to help prevent and achieve pregnancy, emphasizes offering a full range of contraceptive methods for persons seeking to prevent pregnancy, highlights the special needs of adolescent clients, and encourages the use of the family planning visit to provide selected preventive health services for women, in accordance with the recommendations for women issued by the Institute of Medicine and adopted by HHS. This report can assist primary care providers in offering family planning services that will help women, men, and couples achieve their desired number and spacing of children and increase the likelihood that those children are born healthy. One of eight pregnancies in the United States results in preterm birth, and infant mortality rates remain high compared with those of other developed countries. Nearly one half of all pregnancies are unintended, with more than 700,000 adolescents aged 15–19 years becoming pregnant each year and more than 300,000 giving birth. The United States continues to face substantial challenges to improving the reproductive health of the U.S. The primary audience for this report is all current or potential providers of family planning services, including those working in service sites that are dedicated to family planning service delivery as well as private and public providers of more comprehensive primary care. The recommendations outline how to provide quality family planning services, which include contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, helping clients achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, preconception health services, and sexually transmitted disease services. Telephone: 77 E-mail: Susan Moskosky, MS, Office of Population Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services. Corresponding preparers: Loretta Gavin, PhD, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC.
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