Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports, April 25, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. RR-4

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• Alternative Title:
  Providing Quality Family Planning Services : Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports
• Personal Author:
  Gavin, Loretta ; Moskosky, Susan ; Carter, Marion ; Curtis, Kathryn M. ; Glass, Evelyn ; Godfrey, Emily ; Marcell, Arik ; Mautone-Smith, Nancy ; Pazol, Karen ; Tepper, Naomi K. ; Zapata, Lauren
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Reproductive Health. ; United States. Office of Public Health and Science. Office of Population Affairs.
• Description:
  This report provides recommendations developed collaboratively by CDC and the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The recommendations outline how to provide quality family planning services, which include contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, helping clients achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, preconception health services, and sexually transmitted disease services. The primary audience for this report is all current or potential providers of family planning services, including those working in service sites that are dedicated to family planning service delivery as well as private and public providers of more comprehensive primary care. The United States continues to face substantial challenges to improving the reproductive health of the U.S. population. Nearly one half of all pregnancies are unintended, with more than 700,000 adolescents aged 15-19 years becoming pregnant each year and more than 300,000 giving birth. One of eight pregnancies in the United States results in preterm birth, and infant mortality rates remain high compared with those of other developed countries. This report can assist primary care providers in offering family planning services that will help women, men, and couples achieve their desired number and spacing of children and increase the likelihood that those children are born healthy. The report provides recommendations for how to help prevent and achieve pregnancy, emphasizes offering a full range of contraceptive methods for persons seeking to prevent pregnancy, highlights the special needs of adolescent clients, and encourages the use of the family planning visit to provide selected preventive health services for women, in accordance with the recommendations for women issued by the Institute of Medicine and adopted by HHS.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Family Planning Services / Standards Female Humans Male Pregnancy
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, 2014; v. 63, no. 4
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987 (print) ; 1545-8601 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Guideline
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  60 pdf pages
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Guidelines and Recommendations Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25362/cdc_25362_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.19 MB ]