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YEAR: 2004

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Expanded state-funded family planning services: estimating pregnancies

averted by the Family PACT Program in California, 1997-1998.

AUTHORS

Foster DG; Klaisle CM; Blum M; Bradsberry ME; Brindis CD

SOURCE

American Journal of Public Health. 2004 Aug;94(8):1341-1346.

ABSTRACT

The California Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment Program was implemented in 1997 to provide family

planning services for uninsured, low-income women and men. We estimated the impact on fertility of providing

500000 women with contraceptives. Paid claims and medical record review data were used to estimate pregnancies

averted. Pregnancies women experienced while enrolled in the program and pregnancies they would have

experienced given methods used before enrollment were modeled as a Markov process. One year of Family Planning,

Access, Care, and Treatment services averted an estimated 108 000 unintended pregnancies that would have

resulted in 50 000 unintended births and 41 000 induced abortions. Providing contraceptives to low income,

medically indigent women significantly reduced the number of unintended pregnancies in California. (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT1T 554-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Expanded state-funded family planning services:

estimating pregnancies averted by the Family PACT Program in California, 1997-1998.", is(are) Foster DG; Klaisle

CM; Blum M; Bradsberry ME; Brindis CD. The source of this article is "American Journal of Public Health. 2004

Aug;94(8):1341-1346.". This article was published in 2004 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT1T 554-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 554

This article is peer-reviewed.

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