Provision of Contraception in New York City School Based Health Centers: Impact on Teenage Pregnancy and Avoided Costs 2008-2017
Since 2008, the School-Based Health Center Reproductive Health Project (SBHC RHP) has supported SBHCs in New York City (NYC) to increase the availability of effective contraception. The project averted an estimated 5,376 pregnancies, 2,104 births and 3,085 abortions, leading to an estimated $30,360,352 in avoided one-time costs of publicly funded births and abortions. These averted events accounted for 26–28% of the decline in teenage pregnancies, births and abortions in NYC.
“When comprehensive reproductive health services are available in SBHCs, teenagers use them, resulting in substantially fewer pregnancies, abortions and births, and lower costs to public health systems.”
Source: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, December 2019
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1363/psrh.12126
