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topics under category "Contraception
(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
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Public funding of contraceptive, sterilization and abortion services, fiscal |
| Family Planning Perspectives. 1991 Sep-Oct;23(5):204-11. |
| In FY 1990, the federal and state governments spent $504 million to provide contraceptive services and supplies, |
| according to the results of a survey of state health, social services, and Medicaid agencies conducted by the Alan |
| Guttmacher Institute. Medicaid accounted for 38% of all public funds spent on contraceptive services, Title X |
| provided 22%, and 2 federal block grant programs--Social Services and Maternal and Child Health--together were |
| responsible for 12% of public expenditures. State governments accounted for the remaining 28% of public funding. |
| Although public expenditures for contraceptive services have risen by $154 million over the past decade, when |
| inflation is taken into account, expenditures have actually fallen by 1.3. Since 1980, the proportion of public |
| contraceptive expenditures contributed by Title X has been cut almost in 1.2, while the proportion contributed by |
| state governments has nearly doubled. When inflation is taken into account, Title X expenditures for contraceptive |
| services have fallen by almost 2/3 since 1980. The federal and state governments together spent $95 million to |
| subsidize sterilization services in 1990, and $65 million to provide abortion services. The federal government was |
| the major source of funding for sterilization services but provided less than 1% of the cost of abortion services. Due |
| to changes over time in survey methodology and the difficulties some states had in separating expenditures by type |
| of care, these data are approximate. (author's) (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2017-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Public funding of contraceptive, sterilization and abortion |
| services, fiscal year 1990.", is(are) Gold RB; Daley D. The source of this article is "Family Planning Perspectives. |
| 1991 Sep-Oct;23(5):204-11.". This article was published in 1991 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document |
| ID: CONT3T 2017-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12017 |
| This article is peer-reviewed. |
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