title: [Contraception and liberal medical acts. The results of a national enquiry carried out by INSERM 1974-1975 (author's transl)].
abstract: The authors examined the part taken by contraception in a liberal practice in France arising out of a national enquiry on liberal medicine in France which was conducted by INSERM in 1975 and which was concerned with the medical activity of a random sample of 1150 doctors carrying out 2 100 total acts. They particularly analysed how these acts were distributed between general practitioners and gynaecologists. It is estimated that in 1975 there were 4.6 million medical liberal acts for contraception in women between 15 and 44 years of age, which worked out at about 1 per person every 8 to 9 months. General practitioners performed about 55 per cent of these acts. The geographical situation (whether it is urban or rural) is the main determinant of the choice of general practitioner or gynaecologist and not the age of the women or their professional activity. Certainly from the point of view of doctors contraception plays an important part in the activity of gynaecologists (20 to 25 per cent of their acts) whereas it remains a weak part of the activity of general practitioners (approximately 1 act every 2 or 3 days). Gynaecologists are inversely busy according to the amount of contraception they practise, but one must consider that there is a balance between contraceptive acts and obstetrical acts. As far as general practitioners are concerned, on the other hand, the year they qualify is the most important, since the younger doctors give up more time for this kind of activity than the older ones.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003267:Contraception / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006176:Gynecology; D006801:Humans; D010821:Physicians, Family
vernacular_title: Contraception et activité médicale libérale. Résultats de l'enquête nationale INSERM 1974-1975.