Improving Federally Assisted Family Planning Programs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Report to the CongressU.S. General Accounting Office, 1975 - 73 pages |
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Page 1 - It is my view that no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition. I believe, therefore, that we should establish as a national goal the provision of adequate family planning services within the next five years to all those who want them but cannot afford them.
Page 53 - Congress created the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) to review the morass of agency budgetary information and to approve agency budget requests.
Page 1 - ... PLANNING TODAY A BRIEF OVERVIEW - Historical Perspective - Principal Public and Private Family Planning Programs - The Family Planning Delivery System as It Exists Now • - Components of Services - Barriers to Services FAMILY PLANNING TODAY - A BRIEF OVERVIEW Historical Perspective As recently as sixty years ago, there were no organized family planning programs in the United States. Family planning, birth control and fertility regulation were considered taboo as matters for public discussion....
Page 5 - V for family planning services as part of an overall program for promoting the health of mothers and children, particularly in rural areas and in areas having a concentration of low- income families.
Page 53 - NCHS will develop and propose a national system to be used by all Federally supported family planning programs, clinics, and service points, and by other agencies that wish to participate in the reporting system. This final system will provide a meaningful body of data essential for the efficient and effective development, operation, and evaluation of family planning programs throughout the nation. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) supports research in the mental health and behavioral...
Page 60 - There is hereby created a section of family planning and child spacing in the maternal and child health division of the State department of health. The section, under the supervision of the State board of health, is authorized to provide printed material, guidance, advice, financial assistance, appliances, devices, drugs, approved methods, and medicines...
Page i - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare DIGEST WHY THE REVIEW WAS MADE...
Page 1 - ... education, public understanding of human sexuality, and information about family planning and population growth. Family planning services, as an integral part of adequate medical care, have been routinely and easily available to the majority of the population. In his message to the Congress, President Nixon emphasized that "...no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition.
Page 24 - Inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. (d) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and any other officer or employee of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to whom the authority involved has been delegated. (e) "Low income family" means a social unit composed of one or more individuals living together as a household and whose total annual income is not in excess of — (I) $2,500 In the case of one such Individual. (II) $3,400 In the...