Kirby D, Resnick M D, Downes B, Kocher T, Gunderson P, Potthoff S, Zelterman D, Blum R W
ETR Associates, Santa Cruz, California.
Fam Plann Perspect. 1993 Jan-Feb;25(1):12-6.
School-based clinics in St. Paul have provided comprehensive health services, including reproductive health care, for almost two decades. This study examines the effects of those clinics on the birthrates in their respective schools, using a newly developed methodology with numerous advantages over previous methods for estimating student birthrates. Confidentially matching the names of female students from school records with the names of mothers on birth records at the Department of Health provided birthrates for each of the St. Paul public high schools with clinics for each year between 1971 and 1986. The results show that birthrates fluctuated dramatically from one year to the next, but school-wide birthrates were not significantly lower in the years immediately following the opening of a clinic than in the years preceding it.
近二十年来，圣保罗的校内诊所一直提供包括生殖健康护理在内的全面健康服务。本研究采用一种新开发的方法，该方法相对于以往估计学生出生率的方法具有诸多优势，以此来考察这些诊所对各自学校出生率的影响。通过将学校记录中的女学生姓名与卫生部出生记录上母亲的姓名进行保密匹配，得出了1971年至1986年间圣保罗各设有诊所的公立高中每年的出生率。结果显示，出生率逐年波动剧烈，但在诊所开设后的几年里，全校出生率并不比开设前的几年显著更低。
