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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Georgia's family planning program.

AUTHORS

Hutcheson HA; Wright NH

SOURCE

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING. 1968;68(2):332-5.

ABSTRACT

Family planning services were originally provided by the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Georgia Dept. of

Public Health in 1939. Recently, an effort has been made to expand the program to each county health dept. with the

use of more than 600 nurses. Program expansion was motivated by the high infant and maternal mortality statistics

in the state. Expansion of the program has involved provision of the pill and the IUD plus consultant help to each of

the county health depts. The backbone of the program is IUD usage. It is hoped that family planning can be

consolidated with other health services, thereby saving and better utilizing professional time and taking advantage of

the readymade clientele. Postpartum women have been found to be most receptive to the offering of family planning

services. Other target women can be located by granny midwives and by nurses searching their other health records.

Training of medical and nonmedical family planning personnel has been important to the success of the program.

Patient education makes up an important part of the family planning program. Details of the educational program and

materials are discussed. Patients must be carefully informed as to possible side effects of the various methods. If

women come to the clinic with side effect problems, they should be kept separate from the new patients and receive

prompt and special attention. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1065-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Georgia's family planning program.", is(are) Hutcheson

HA; Wright NH. The source of this article is "AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING. 1968;68(2):332-5.". This article

was published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1065-06. All rights reserved

with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41065

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