Smith J C, Cates W
Public Health Rep. 1978 Mar-Apr;93(2):194-7.
As with the delivery of any medical service, abortion has definite public health effects that should be evaluated. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has monitored the impact of abortion in three ways: (a) conducting epidemiologic surveillance of legally induced abortion beginning in 1969. (b) funding a multicenter study of abortion morbidity beginning in 1971, and (c) undertaking surveillance of abortion-related mortality beginning in 1972. These activities are intended to identify health problems related to abortion, to assess the magnitude of these problems, and to make recommendations directed at eliminating the problems. In addition to the Programmatic uses of abortion data, the CDC statistics have also provided a basis for both legislative and judicial decisions that have had national and local impact. The CDC and the National Center for Health Statistics are currently working collectively to strengthen the reporting of national abortion statistics so that the public health need for abortion statistics can be met.
与提供任何医疗服务一样，堕胎具有一些应当予以评估的明确公共卫生影响。疾病控制中心（CDC）通过三种方式监测堕胎的影响：（a）自1969年起对合法堕胎进行流行病学监测；（b）自1971年起资助一项关于堕胎发病率的多中心研究；（c）自1972年起对与堕胎相关的死亡率进行监测。这些活动旨在识别与堕胎相关的健康问题，评估这些问题的严重程度，并提出旨在消除这些问题的建议。除了将堕胎数据用于规划目的之外，疾病控制中心的统计数据还为产生了国家和地方影响的立法及司法决策提供了依据。疾病控制中心和国家卫生统计中心目前正在共同努力加强全国堕胎统计数据的报告工作，以便满足对堕胎统计数据的公共卫生需求。
