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YEAR: 1974

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

A review of Family Health's latest evaluation of the demographic impact of

the Louisiana Family Planning Program.

AUTHORS

Gettys JO; Atkins EH; Mary CC

SOURCE

Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society 126(3): 81-88. March 1974.

ABSTRACT

The report, "Recent Trends in Louisiana Fertility," released in January 1973 is reviewed. This report was

distinguished from other Louisiana Family Planning Program evaluations of demographic impact by several features:

1) Louisiana crude birth rates are compared with those of the United States and Mississippi; 2) differences in age-

specific nonwhite fertility rates in Louisiana between 1965 and 1971 are compared with corresponding differences in

Mississippi; and 3) the concepts of "parity components of age-specific rates" and "excess births" are introduced into

the discussion of Louisiana fertility trends. According to the reviewers, no scientific or even psudoscientific

analysis of the Louisiana Family Planning Program has ever been published or made available by the Family Health

Foundation to any state agency. They contend that the so-called evaluations of the demographic impact of the

Louisiana Family Planning Program are textbook examples of customized statistics. It is suggested that the family

planning program services may contribute to increased natality and that the family planning program workers are more

highly motivated to retain their jobs than to bring down the brith rate. The reviewers are not convinced that the

statisticians on the Family Health Foundation are responsible for all of the narrative that accompanies their charts

and tables. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 3519-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "A review of Family Health's latest evaluation of the

demographic impact of the Louisiana Family Planning Program.", is(are) Gettys JO; Atkins EH; Mary CC. The

source of this article is "Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society 126(3): 81-88. March 1974.". This article was

published in 1974 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 3519-06. All rights reserved with

PubHealth.info) PIN: 33519

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