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- Title
Men at Family Planning Clinics: The New Patients?
- Authors
Schulte, Margaret M.; Sonenstein, Freya L.
- Abstract
This special report describes research that addresses the lack of knowledge on how to meet men's reproductive health needs. Using a national clinic survey, the authors identified family planing clinics that had made substantial efforts to serve men, and then documented how these clinics recruit male clients, deliver services to them and pay for these services. The clinics selected for study came from a national survey of publicly funded family planning clinics conducted by the Urban Institute in the spring and summer of 1993. Urban Institute researchers selected 600 clinics out of the total or more than 4,000 publicly funded family planning clinics in the continental U.S. that receive the Title X funding. From January through March 1995, the authors conducted intensive follow-up telephone interviews with 25 clinics. They selected those clinics from the 52 clinics that reported a male client share of at least 10%. On closer examination, however, the authors found that in 18 of these clinics, males were receiving services unrelated to reproductive health care. All of the 25 clinics receive Title X funding and provide a full array of family planning services. The authors classified the 25 clinics into five types based on their overall approach to serving male clients.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BIRTH control clinics; REPRODUCTIVE health; MEN'S health; BIRTH control; SURVEYS
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 5, p212
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136278