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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

The economics of family planning services [editorial]

AUTHORS

SOURCE

British Journal of Family Planning. 1995 Oct;21(3):81.

ABSTRACT

Research which provides a cost benefit analysis of the public provision of family planning services is complicated by

the fact that the benefits are invisible savings to future health and social service budgets. Thus, investigators must

decide which outcomes to include in their calculations, what economic values to attach to them, and how these

should be weighted for analysis. Research to date in Great Britain has used as its only outcome the avoidance of

unintended pregnancy. The economic benefits are savings in direct National Health Service costs and income

maintenance programs for families of unintended children. Two studies by Laing concluded by urging local

authorities to invest in FP services and by identifying an economic benefit/cost ratio of such an investment as over

5:1. A recent study by McGuire and Hughes led to a calculation of a public purse benefit/cost ratio of 11:1. This

study showed that all contraceptive methods are highly cost-effective, including those with a relatively high initial

cost, and that sterilization is the most cost-effective method. According to these studies, FP costs of 159.7 million

British pounds in 1991 generated savings of over 25 billion pounds. Data constraints continue to plague

investigation comparing the cost-effectiveness of different modes of service provision. These conclusions led the

Contraceptive Alliance to recommend that a full range of contraceptive methods be provided free of charge at the

point of service provision. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2552-06)

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