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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: April 2014

Workgroups: Family Planning Workgroup

This report includes recommendations on how to provide quality family planning services. These services include: 

  • Contraceptive services 
  • Pregnancy testing and counseling 
  • Helping clients achieve pregnancy 
  • Basic infertility services 
  • Preconception health services 
  • Sexually transmitted disease services

The report can help primary care providers offer services that help people have the number of children they want, help space births the way they’d like, and help make sure their children are born healthy.

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Objectives related to this resource (8)

Reduce the proportion of unintended pregnancies — FP‑01
Baseline only
Reduce the proportion of pregnancies conceived within 18 months of a previous birth — FP‑02
Target met or exceeded
Increase the proportion of adolescent females who used effective birth control the last time they had sex — FP‑05
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescent males who used a condom the last time they had sex — FP‑06
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescents who use birth control the first time they have sex — FP‑07
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of women who get needed publicly funded birth control services and support — FP‑09
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of women at risk for unintended pregnancy who use effective birth control — FP‑10
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescent females at risk for unintended pregnancy who use effective birth control — FP‑11
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Gavin L, Moskosky S, Carter M, Curtis K, Glass E, Godfrey E, Marcell A, Mautone-Smith N, Pazol K, Tepper N, Zapata L. (2014). Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6304a1.htm?s_cid=rr6304a1_w