Assessment of a family planning program: contraceptive services and fertility in Atlanta, Georgia
Tyler, C.W.; Tillack, W.S.; Smith, J.C.; Hatcher, R.A.
Family Planning Perspectives 2(2): 25-29
1970
ISSN/ISBN: 0014-7354 PMID: 5520625 DOI: 10.2307/2133851Document Number: 521173
From 1963 to 1968 clinic enrollment in the Emory University Family Planning Program at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta doubled. The Program serves almost two-thirds of the contraceptors served by the 4 Atlanta family planning agencies. Contraceptors in the Program who were from the Fulton County part of Atlanta were studied. These contraceptors could be characterized as largely Negro women (91.7%), in the age group 15-24 (57.3%), and unmarried slightly more often than married (51.3%). Over the 3-year period from 1965 to 1968 whites and Negroes in Atlanta in Fulton County had average yearly declines in crude birth rates of 5.5% and 6.2% respectively. From 1960-1967 there was a 133.2% total increase in illegitimate births for whites of all age groups. Among the Negroes there was a slight increase for those under 20 (7.2%) but decreases of 12% and 17.4% for the age groups 20-29 and over 30 as compared to increases of 106.7% and 147.9% for the whites in the same age groups. It seems fertility decline in Atlanta is at least partly due to the Grady Hospital Program.