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Building a Flexible Program to Evaluate the Effects of Fertility Control

1978; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-93109-3_5

0172-7788

Howard W. Ory, Carl W. Tyler, Roger Rochat, Willard Cates,

Agricultural risk and resilience

In the United States, one-fifth of all births (13.9 million) in 1973 to mothers 15–44 years of age were unwanted at conception (22). It is not surprising, therefore, that 18.5 million married American women are using some form of temporary or permanent contraception (23) and that an additional 1 million women undergo legal abortions to prevent an unwanted birth (7). In an effort to evaluate the effects of programs for family planning, assess the effectiveness of birth control techniques, and determine the safety of these fertility control measures, the Family Planning Evaluation Division (FPED) of the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC), carries out public health activities to achieve the following objectives: 1. Ensure that each pregnancy conceived will lead to the birth of a wanted child. 2. Eliminate death and control morbidity due to abortion 3. Eliminate death and control morbidity due to contraceptive use and to sterilization.