Abstract
Receipt of Selected Preventive Health Services for Women and Men of Reproductive Age - United States, 2011-2013.
Highlights
In 2014, CDC published Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S Office of Population Affairs (QFP) [1,2]
Among persons aged 15–44 years who were at risk because they were not in a mutually monogamous relationship during the past year, 45.3% of women were tested for chlamydia and 32.5% of men were tested for any sexually transmitted disease (STD) in that year
Among women aged 18–44 years irrespective of pregnancy status, 80.9% had their blood pressure checked by a health care professional and 31.7% received an influenza vaccine in the past year; 54.5% of those with high blood pressure were tested for diabetes, 44.9% of those with obesity had a health care professional talk with them about their diet, and 55.2% of those who were current smokers had a health professional talk with them about their smoking in the past year
Summary
In 2014, CDC published Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S Office of Population Affairs (QFP) [1,2]. QFP encourages use of the family planning visit to assess the need for each of these services and offer them as recommended. QFP encourages screening all women and men of reproductive age about their need for family planning services, even when their initial reason for seeking services is not related to preventing or achieving pregnancy. For each of these preventive services, QFP describes the subpopulations recommended to receive them and how often they should be provided (Appendix A)
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