25-7.
Reduce the proportion of childless females with fertility problems who have had a sexually transmitted disease or who have required treatment for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
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25-7. | |
Reduce the proportion of childless females with fertility problems who have had a sexually transmitted disease or who have required treatment for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). |
Target: 15 percent.
Baseline: 27 percent of childless females aged 15 to 44 years with fertility problems had a history of STDs or PID treatment in 1995.
Target setting method: 44 percent improvement.
Data source: National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), CDC, NCHS.
|
Childless Females Aged
15 to 44 Years |
STD History or PID Treatment |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
27 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DNC |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
33 |
|
White |
27 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
27 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
27 |
|
Black or African American |
32 |
|
White |
27 |
|
Education level (aged 22 to 44 years) |
|
|
Less than high school |
30 |
|
High school graduate |
27 |
|
At least some college |
28 |
|
Age |
|
|
15 to 24 years |
23 |
|
25 to 34 years |
26 |
|
35 to 44 years |
31 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.