"Financing Family Planning Services: Is Categorical Legislation Still Needed?" Drs. McFarlane and Meier Respond. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Authors of the article "Financing Family Planning Services: Is Categorical Legislation Still Needed?" in the September-December 1991 issue of the American Journal of Gynecological Health, respond to a charge by the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Regional Family Planning Council that data presented on California's 1987 expenditures for family planning services were erroneous. Data presented in the article were obtained and reprinted from a 1988 article in Family Planning Perspectives by Rachel Benson Gold and Sandra Guardado. The figure of $27,000 was for contraceptive services exclusive of expenditures for sterilization, infertility, or extraclinical education. This figure was later adjusted in Volume 21 of Family Planning Perspectives to $27 million. Accordingly, total state funds spent nationwide was $76 million and national expenditures were $412 million. The authors were unaware of these corrections when their article went to press and thank their critic for bringing attention to the error. Even so, the author's original conclusion holds that categorical legislation is needed for family planning.

published proceedings

  • Am J Gynecol Health

author list (cited authors)

  • Mcfarlane, D. R., & Meier, K. J.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Mcfarlane, DR||Meier, KJ

publication date

  • March 1992