@ 6 Data highlights According to data collected for the National Reporting System for Family Planning Services by the National Center for Health Statistics, an esti­ mated 7,425,000 medical family planning visits by females were made to nonmilitary family planning service sites in the United States. Excluded from the scope of the National Reporting System for Family Planning Services are family...

OBJECTIVES This study examines whether Alabama's Medicaid family planning demonstration program reaches a different segment of the population than the health department-based Title X family planning program, whether service use rates differ across clients using care within and outside of the Title X provider system, and whether additional risk assessment and care coordination services provided ...

BACKGROUND Publicly funded family planning clinics provide contraceptive care to millions of poor and low-income women every year. To inform the design of services that will best meet the contraceptive and reproductive health needs of women, we conducted a targeted survey of family planning clinic clients, asking women about services received in the past year and about their reasons for visitin...

BACKGROUND Men as the main decision makers in most of African families have an important role to play towards acceptance of family planning methods. This study sought to identify strategies used to engage men in family planning services and determine the extent to which men in Kibaha district in Tanzania accept these interventions. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional study using both quant...

HEALTHiADMNISTRAION The provision of health care services to the people of India is a basic responsibility of state governments and to some extent of municipal corporations of the larger cities. The Union Government is responsible for this provision in Union administered territories. (a) Central Administration. The Union Government, through the Ministry of Health, generally has largely advisory...

objective: regardless of three decades of implementation of family planning program in nepal, need of family planning services is largely unmet. systematic studies, evaluating the impact of family program on several ethnic groups of nepal has not been carried out in large scale. this study sheds light on the investigation of, whether the use of contraceptives varies among different ethnic group...

a bstrac t   background: organizational and structural obstacles are a group of major obstacles in achievement of appropriate family planning counseling. detection of these obstacles from the viewpoint of managers, staffs and clients who are key members in health services providing system is a major step toward appropriate planning to modify or delete this group of obstacles. the present study ...