Advocating for Women's Health: The Importance of Family Planning Clinics

<p>Many women regard family planning clinics as their first entry point into the health care system, and one they consider their usual source of care. Each year, publicly funded family planning services prevent 1.94 million unintended pregnancies, including 400,000 teen pregnancies (Guttmacher Institute, 2010). Services such as birth control and pregnancy counseling, women’s annual visits and STI testing all prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, which improve health outcomes for infants, women and their families. Research has indicated that unintended pregnancy has negative health and economic consequences that can be prevented through health education and services provided by publically funded family planning clinics.</p> <p>This paper examines fieldwork at the City of Berkeley Public Health Clinic that provides family planning services to the diverse population of Berkeley, California. The main objective of the fieldwork project was to develop sexual health education skills and to create a sexual health-training curriculum that can be used to educate the public about sexual health topics. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Stumm, Elizabeth A

Contributors dc:contributor

• Courtney Keeler

• Women's Health
• Unplanned pregnancy
• family planning clinics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/182

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1192