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- Title
The Impact of Public-Sector Expenditures For Contraceptive Services in California.
- Authors
Forrest, Jacqueline Darroch; Singh, Susheela
- Abstract
The article presents the adaptation of the national analysis to California and compares the resulting estimates of the impact of federal and state expenditures. A methodology previously used to calculate the number of unintended pregnancies averted nationally through publicly funded contraceptive services has been adapted for a state-level analysis in California. An estimated 136,800 unintended pregnancies--which would result in approximately 36,000 births, 85,100 abortions and 15,700 miscarriages--are averted each year because publicly funded contraceptive care is available from clinics and Private physicians in California. This analysis shows that in California, as in the United States as a whole, publicly supported contraceptive services make an important contribution in preventing a substantial number of unintended pregnancies, in total dollars saved and in the ratio of savings to expenditures. The factors most likely to affect the savings/cost ratio are the average expenditures per birth and per abortion for women who are eligible for various categories of publicly funded care, the proportion of women using publicly funded reversible contraceptive services who are in each of those eligibility categories and the proportion of the unintended pregnancies that end as births or as abortions.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; BIRTH control clinics; MEDICAL equipment; MEDICAL care costs; CONTRACEPTIVES; MISCARRIAGE; BIRTH control
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 4, p161
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135607