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Heartbreak in the Heartland: Family Planning Limitations of the Midwest

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Renaisa S. Anthony, MD, MPH , Center for Reducing Health Disparities, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Comprehensive family planning across the lifecourse is essential to optimizing women's potential and health. Cuts to Title X funding have impacted States across the nation including but not limited to more conservative Midwestern states like Nebraska. In addition to Title X cuts, legislative action the directly impacts women's access to termination of pregnancy services and access to highly trained family planning professionals continue to plague the Midwest. In 2013, the Center for Reducing Health Disparities in collaboration with Planned Parenthood and the Olson Center for Women's Health partnered to lead the "411 on Family Planning: The Role and Obligation of Health Care Providers & Professionals" workshop. The interdisciplinary project was funded by the Urban Initiative for Reproductive Health (UIRH) with the following goals:

(1) Define family planning

(2) Discuss national, state and local family planning services, resources and limitations

(3) Identify the role of health care providers and public health practitioners

(4) Develop an action plan to increase access to comprehensive family planning for patients and training for health care providers.

The results from the pre and post tests on knowledge, awareness and support of family planning services in Nebraska were collected and analyzed. This presentation will discuss the current state of family planning in the Midwest namely Nebraska and surrouding states, limitations and legislative efforts to limit or expand family planning initiatives and future directions for increasing availability of family planning services for women across the lifecourse.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related education
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the current status of family planning in the Midwestern States Explain the need for comprehensive family planning in the Midwest Compare legislative attempts to limit or provide comprehensive family planning access in the Midwest Explain an academic-community partnership approach to increase comprehensive family planning in the Midwest

Keyword(s): Family Planning

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Deputy Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in which we direct efforts towards issues of disparity like family planning. The Center in collaboration with Planned Parenthood designed and hosted the 411 on Family Planning Session in 2013.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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