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1) Do you believe there is a need for public wellness influence in the bea of family be after? What would be the role? I believe public health has many benefits for both individual curiously women. One of the benefits is that family jutning services allows individuals to aimly achieved their own family size, and contributes to improved health outcomes for infants, children, women as well as families (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999, pg. 1075). Some these benefits services include educating about preventing sexually transmitted infection such as HIV, herpes, syphilis etc.Besides from upbringing, they also counsel patients especially women who are taking contraceptives and/or IUD devices. Counseling is critical part in health dispense because it helped women and men to be aware of the risks that they are taking when it comes to having a nonher child and know all the unhoped and expected outcomes when it comes to prenatal and postnatal care. Effective method s such as Breast, pelvic examinations, breast and cervical screenings are found the first step for women who are at risk for breast or cervical cancer.Without these services, there is a high chance of more(prenominal) unintended pregnancies in America as well as premature babies and mortality. Recent article, Guttmacher Institute (2012) stated Each year, publicly funded family planning services prevent 1. 94 million unintended pregnancies, including 400,000 teen pregnancies (Guttmacher institute, 2012, pg. 3). With that being said, family planning services have been effective for women who decided not to get pregnant.It also helped Medicaid, a federal USA health program for low income adults and children, by Medicaid saving(a) a skunk of expenditures from pregnancy-related care ( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999, pg. 1074). With the help of Family planning program, this helped save a lot of families from psychological problems to financial problems. Unfortunately, Guttmacher (2012) listed most women who are in a poverty line, have low education level or are single parents are less likely to have access of family planning services (pg. 5).Some of the obstacles for these women who are not on the family planning services are because of lack of awareness about family planning services, limited access to publicly funded services and access to insurance coverage. These obstacles challenges because many Americans are still left out of insurance. With the help of Obama administration which is trying to get every single american to have affordable insurance. This will help bridge the gap even more close for more additional women to take the step into getting family planning services.Elements of preconception care should be integrated into every primary care visit for women of reproductive age. 23 Preconception care must not be limited to a single visit to a health care provider, but rather be a process of care designed to meet the needs of an indivi dual. 25 As part of omnibus(prenominal) preconception care, providers should encourage patients to develop a reproductive biography plan. A reproductive life plan is a set of goals and action steps based on personal values and resources about whether and when to acquire pregnant and have (or not have) children. 3 Providers also must educate patients about how their reproductive life plan impacts contraceptive and medical decision-making. Increased awareness of the importance of preconception care can be achieved through public outreach and improved collaboration between health care providers. Currently, only 30. 3 per centum of women report receiving pre-pregnancy health counseling. 13 Future efforts should promote research to further define the evidence-based standards of preconception care, go down its cost-effectiveness, and improve tracking of the proportion of women obtaining these services.ReferenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Achievements in public health, 19001999 Family planning. MMWR Weekly. 1999 Dec 348(47)1073-1080. Available from http//www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4847a1.htmGuttmacher Institute. In brief Facts on publicly funded contraceptive services in the linked States. Washington Guttmacher Institute 2010 April. Available from http//www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contraceptive_serv.pdf PDF 375 KB