More U.S. Women Are Taking Birth Control Services

New National Survey has reported that more U.S. women are now resorting to birth control services like birth control pills, patches, birth control vaginal ring and other contraceptive services.

It has been reported that from year 1995 to 2002, the percentage of American women using contraceptive prescriptions has increased from 36 to 41, according to senior research associate, Jennifer J. Frost, at the Guttmacher Institute in New York City, and author of the survey report published in the October issue of The American Journal of Public Health.

The survey has further shown that women receiving other sexual and contraceptive services excluding birth control prescriptions like STD testing, Pap tests, remained unchanged at 74 percent.

The aforementioned facts and figures are based upon the National Survey of Family Growth taken in 1995 and 2002. The survey was taken for women ages 15 to 44 and it contained questionnaire related to 13 contraceptive services taken in the last 12 months.

Survey revealed the fact that 75 percent of women took birth control services from private health care providers whereas remaining 25 percent received services from public clinic or other publicly funded resources, however, they also got other birth control services besides regular pills or patches or other regular contraceptive prescriptions.

Though the public clinical services are filling up a gap of contraception needs for low-income group women but private health care services seem to be focusing more on the improvement of birth control services.

The overall trend seems to be changing now as more and more U.S. women are now prefer to take birth control services rather than resorting to sterilization.

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