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YEAR: 1973

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

The disparity between who needs and who uses family planning.

AUTHORS

McCalister DV; Thiessen V; McDermott M

SOURCE

In: McCalister, D.V., Thiessen, V., and McDermott, M., comp. Readings in family

planning: a challenge to the health professions. St. Louis, Missouri, Mosby,

1973. p. 163-167

ABSTRACT

Family planning is not viewed as preventive medicine by clients; health professionals must educate the public of

this connection. The subjective and objective availability of medically prescribed family planning methods is

inadequate for the adolescent, poor, and nonwhite. There is often social opposition in making service available to

teenagers and single persons, yet there is pressure to require welfare recipients to practice contraception. Among

the poor and nonwhite, there is social support available to the out-of-wedlock mother and child. Teenagers often feel

advance contraceptive planning conflicts with personal values. Health practitioners must stress precise

communication and avoid being insensitive to patient needs because of their own feelings and values. The physical

characteristics of settings influence the attitudes of patients and practitioners. Jaffe and Polger delineate in their

article that the ''cultural-motivational'' and ''accessibility'' approach are both needed to reduce the disparity between

need and use. The article by Fischman points out that nurses have been slow to educate clients, and discusses

ways in which the physical characteristics of the practice setting impedes delivery of care. Lieberman cautions that

personal decisions must be left to the client, and Wagner et al. continues in this vein with reference to the sexually

active adolescent. Kane et al. present findings that the disparity between need and use is not due to client

ignorance or indifference. Zelnik and Kanter reports that contraceptive use by unmarried black females is due to

conflict-ethnic values. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 543-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The disparity between who needs and who uses family

planning.", is(are) McCalister DV; Thiessen V; McDermott M. The source of this article is "In: McCalister, D.V.,

Thiessen, V., and McDermott, M., comp. Readings in family planning: a challenge to the health professions. St.

Louis, Missouri, Mosby, 1973. p. 163-167". This article was published in 1973 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 543-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 35543

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