title: Family planning in a Chinese-American population.
abstract: Among 26 American-born women of Chinese ancestry, 43 Chinese immigrant women who had lived in San Francisco longer than 5 years, and 199 who had immigrated within the last 5 years, fewer than 39% practiced contraception. Oral contraception was used by significantly more of the American-born than of the other two categories of women. Condom or foam was relied upon by sizeable percentages of each immigrant group. Eleven percent of each immigrant group, and 13.3% of the American-born women were sterilized. The only users of an intrauterine device were 3.7% of the immunigrants who had lived in the United States longer than 5 years.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003267:Contraception; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male