Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 Demography of Unintended Pregnancy; 5 Consequences of Unintended Pregnancy; 6 Patterns of Contraceptive Use; 7 Basic Requirements: Contraceptive Knowledge and Access; 8 Personal and Interpersonal Determinants of Contraceptive Use; 9 Socioeconomic and Cultural Influences on Contraceptive Use; 10 Programs to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy; 11 Conclusions and Recommendations; 12 Appendixes; 13 A Commissioned and Contributed Papers; 14 B The Political Storms over Family Planning; 15 C The National Survey of Family Growth; 16 D Table of Odds Ratios; 17 E Technical Notes on the Recalculation Exercise; 18 F Summaries of Evaluated Programs; 19 G Assessing Program Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness; 20 Index

About the Author

Sarah S. Brown and Leon Eisenberg, Editors; Committee on Unintended Pregnancy, Institute of Medicine