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Risk Made Real: Communicating Contraceptive Risk
Parent Power
Maximizing Insurance Enrollment in MCH
Long-Term, Reversible Contraception Gains Traction With Young Women
NCHS News Brief Shows Decline in Teen Births
Life is Short - Smile!
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October 5, 2016
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Risk Made Real: Communicating Contraceptive Risk                             

Risk Made Real: Communicating Contraceptive Risk
  

October 12, 2016 at 1:00pm ET
Presented by Jeffrey Peipert, MD, MPH, MHA
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Learning Objectives:
  • Identify factors affecting patient's perceptions and misperceptions about risks and benefits of contraceptive use and pregnancy
  • Discuss perceptions of significant risk events and side effects
  • Define absolute risk, attributable risk, relative risk, and odds ratio
  • Discuss the specific risks associated with pregnancy
  • Identify effective communication strategies and tools within a larger counseling framework to better facilitate patient decision-making
  • Demonstrate effective communication strategies and tools to communicate risk 
Parent Power                             
Parent Power
 
Teens say parents most influence their decisions about sex, according to new national survey data released earlier this week by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Teens age 12-19 say parents are more influential than friends, the media, siblings, teachers and educators, and others, according to the representative survey of 3,038 individuals age 12-24. Other survey results include:
  • Both younger teens (52% of those age 12-15) and older teens (32% of those age 16-19) say parents most influence their decisions about sex. Friends are cited second most often by both age groups.
  • Non-Hispanic black teens (54%), Hispanic teens (50%), and Non-Hispanic white teens (43%) all say parents most influence their decisions about sex.
  • Those age 20-24 (27%) say friends most influence their decisions about sex; 16% of those age 20-21 and 19% of those age 22-24 cite parents.
View and share infographics from this survey.
  
Maximizing Insurance Enrollment in MCH                             
Upcoming Webinar Series: Maximizing Insurance Enrollment in MCH

In partnership with Family Voices, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs is hosting a three-part webinar series on outreach and enrollment. The series, "Maximizing Insurance Enrollment in Maternal and Child Health," will feature presentations from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), Enroll America, state advocates and health insurance navigators from the family leader community. You can register for one or all of the webinars at the following links:
 
Thursday, October 13th - 1:00-2:30 PM eastern
Speakers include staff from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center, Young Invincibles, Family Voices, and Got Transition
 
Tuesday, October 25th - 2:00-3:30 PM eastern
Speakers include staff from the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Enroll America, state Title V agencies, Family Voices, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council
 
Wednesday, November 9th - 3:00-4:30 PM eastern
Speakers include staff from the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, state Title V agencies, and Family Voices
 
For more information, contact Emily Eckert at eeckert@amchp.org.
  
Long-Term, Reversible Contraception Gains Traction With Young Women                             
IUD Long-Term, Reversible Contraception Gains Traction With Young Women
 
Nurse practitioner Kim Hamm talks in soothing tones to her 14-year-old patient as she inserts a form of long-acting contraception beneath the skin of the girl's upper arm. "This is the numbing medicine, so you're going to feel me touch you here," she says, taking the teen's arm. "Little stick, one, two three, ouch. And then a little bit of burn." Hamm works at the Gaston County Teen Wellness Center, in Gastonia, N.C., which provides counseling, education and medical care. The teenager has already talked through her birth control options with another health care provider and chosen the implant - a flexible rod, about the size of a matchstick, that slowly releases low levels of hormones to prevent pregnancy.
  
NCHS News Brief Shows Declines in Teen Births                               

NCHS News Brief Shows Declines in Teen Births 


 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released a report entitled "Continued Declines in Teen Birth Rates in the United States, 2015." The report highlights the fact that in 2015, the teen birth rate fell to historic lows nationwide, down 8% from 2014 to 22.3 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19. Teen birth rates declined for each race and Hispanic-origin group that year. Read the full report here.

  
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