title: Perinatal health care policy: how it will affect the family in the 21st century.
abstract: Demographic trends, pressures to reduce medical care costs and to improve access, biomedical research, and women's preferences for health care will result in many important changes in perinatal health care during the next 2 decades. These changes have the potential for influencing family structure and functioning. For example, the rates of teen-age pregnancy, unwanted or mistimed pregnancy, and infertility, with all their attendant adverse consequences, might be reduced.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294-2010.
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Klerman
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003363:Cost Control; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D017048:Health Care Costs; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007229:Infant Welfare / Q000639:trends*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008429:Maternal Welfare / Q000639:trends*; D010500:Perinatology / Q000639:trends*; D011158:Population Growth; D012106:Research; D014481:United States