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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| The results of a multipractice collaborative project on the use of |
| postcoital contraception. |
| Lewis C; Wood C; Randall S |
| British Journal of Family Planning. 1996 Apr;22(1):52-3. |
| In England, specially trained nurses interviewed all women attending the unplanned pregnancy counseling clinic in |
| Portsmouth between September 1994 and February 1995. The study also included details of all postcoital |
| contraception (PCC) prescriptions dispensed by the family planning service, accident and emergency (A&E) |
| department, and emergency gynecology ward and details of list size and PCC PACT data from 16 participating |
| volunteer practices (comprising 64 general practitioners) in the Portsmouth area. The researchers aimed to |
| determine whether or not there was a correlation between a practices' PCC prescribing rate and pregnancy |
| termination rate. There were 115,910 women aged 15-44 and 577 induced abortions in the Health Commission area |
| for an annual abortion rate of 9.96/1000 fertile women. There were 3336 PCC prescriptions in the same area for a |
| total annual PCC prescribing rate of 57.56/1000. 51.5% of these prescriptions were given by general practices, |
| 45.6% by family planning clinics, 2.5% by the A&E department, and 0.4% by the emergency gynecology ward. In the |
| 16 participating practices, the annual termination rate was 10.96/1000 and the total annual PCC prescribing rate was |
| 59.8/1000. 55.7% of these prescriptions were given by general practices, 42.4% by family planning clinics, 1.5% by |
| the A&E department, and 0.4% by the emergency gynecology ward. No association existed between the practices' |
| induced abortion rate and either its total PCC prescribing rate (correlation r = -0.24) or percentage rate (correlation r = |
| +0.23). (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2071-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The results of a multipractice collaborative project on the |
| use of postcoital contraception.", is(are) Lewis C; Wood C; Randall S. The source of this article is "British Journal |
| of Family Planning. 1996 Apr;22(1):52-3.". This article was published in 1996 in English language(s). |
| (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2071-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 7071 |
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