Update: Providing Quality Family Planning Services - Recommendations From CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, 2017

Authors

Loretta E. Gavin PhD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Karen Pazol PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Katherine A. Ahrens PhD, University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public ServiceFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-22-2017

Publication Title

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Abstract

In April 2014, CDC published "Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs" (QFP), which describes the scope of services that should be offered in a family planning visit and how to provide those services (e.g., periodicity of screening, which persons are in need of services, etc.) (1). The sections in QFP include the following: Determining the Client's Need for Services; Contraceptive Services; Pregnancy Testing and Counseling; Clients Who Want to Become Pregnant; Basic Infertility Services; Preconception Health Services; Sexually Transmitted Disease Services; and Related Preventive Health Services. In addition, the QFP includes an appendix entitled Screening Services for Which Evidence Does Not Support Screening.

Recommended Citation

Gavin, L., Pazol, K., & Ahrens, K.A. (2017). Update: Providing Quality Family Planning Services - Recommendations from CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, 2017. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 66(50), 1383-1385.