title: The impact of public-sector expenditures for contraceptive services in California.
abstract: A methodology previously used to calculate the number of unintended pregnancies averted nationally through publicly funded contraceptive services has been adapted for a state-level analysis in California. An estimated 136,800 unintended pregnancies--which would result in approximately 36,000 births, 85,100 abortions and 15,700 miscarriages--are averted each year because publicly funded contraceptive care is available from clinics and private physicians in California. Federal and state expenditures of $46 million for contraceptive services in California in FY 1989 resulted in an estimated savings of $232-$509 million in public costs for abortions, for prenatal and maternity care and for medical care, welfare and supplementary nutritional programs during the first two years after a birth. These savings represent an average of $7.70 saved for each dollar spent to provide contraceptive services. This savings/cost ratio is 75 percent higher than that previously estimated for the United States as a whole.
authors.affiliation: Alan Guttmacher Institute.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Forrest
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000453:epidemiology; D002140:California; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States