The Availability and Accessibility of the Contraceptive Implant from Family Planning Agencies in the United States, 1991-1992

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Frost
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contraceptive Implant

Population Control: Latin America and the United States

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
M-Françoise Hall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Family Planning Programs

There are numerous reasons why Latin Americans do not place a high priority on the control of their hitherto unprecedented rate of population growth. Some of these are known and discussed at length in the United States. Others seem more difficult for us to understand. They are usually little discussed and if they are, find little sympathy. This article focuses on these little discussed reasons. In order to improve communications between our nation and Latin America, it is important that we see population growth and its meaning as it appears to Latin Americans for whom the implications of large-scale demographically-effective family planning programs are very different from our own.

scholarly journals “In Africa, There Was No Family Planning. Every Year You Just Give Birth”: Family Planning Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Somali and Congolese Refugee Women After Resettlement to the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Royer ◽  
Lenora M. Olson ◽  
Brandi Jackson ◽  
Lana S. Weber ◽  
Lori Gawron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
Knowledge Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Planning Knowledge

It is crucial for refugee service providers to understand the family planning knowledge, attitudes, and practices of refugee women following third country resettlement. Using an ethnographic approach rooted in Reproductive Justice, we conducted six focus groups that included 66 resettled Somali and Congolese women in a western United States (US) metropolitan area. We analyzed data using modified grounded theory. Three themes emerged within the family planning domain: (a) concepts of family, (b) fertility management, and (c) unintended pregnancy. We contextualized these themes within existing frameworks for refugee cultural transition under the analytic paradigms of “pronatalism and stable versus evolving family structure” and “active versus passive engagement with family planning.” Provision of just and equitable family planning care to resettled refugee women requires understanding cultural relativism, social determinants of health, and how lived experiences influence family planning conceptualization. We suggest a counseling approach and provider practice recommendations based on our study findings.

Association between number of sexual partners and utilization of family planning and sexually transmitted infection services by men aged 15–44 in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Mian B. Hossain ◽  
Yvonne Bronner ◽  
Ifeyinwa Udo ◽  
Sabriya Dennis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
The Us ◽  
Number Of Sexual Partners

AbstractUnintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) pose a huge public health problem in the United States. Efforts towards reducing unintended pregnancies have previously focused on women, but the role of men in family planning and preventing unwanted pregnancy is becoming clearer. The primary objective of the study was to fully examine the utilization of family planning services by men in the US, and to determine whether factors such as race, health insurance type and number of sexual partners influenced their utilization and receipt of family planning services and STI-related health services. Data were from the 2006–2010 National Survey on Family Growth (NSFG) study conducted in the US. The study sample comprised 7686 men aged 14–44 who ever had sex with women, and who had had at least one sexual partner in the 12 months before the survey. The receipt of family planning and STI-related health services by this group of men was estimated. The results showed that non-Hispanic Black men were more likely to receive family planning and STI-related services than Hispanic and non-Hispanic White males. Given that non-Hispanic Black men are disproportionately affected by STIs and are a high-risk group, the finding that this group received more family planning and STI services is a positive step towards reducing the disproportionately high prevalence of STIs in men in this under-privileged population.

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