UPR/MSC CURRENT PROJECTS
AND ACTIVITIES
Selected Campus Projects Relevant to Women's Health
Family Planning Program
The University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus Graduate School of Public Health Family Planning Program is sponsored through the Region II Federal Department of Health and Human Services and its Public Health Services. It has been a Title X Family Planning Program Grantee since 1969, providing comprehensive services to the Health Regions of San Juan, Carolina, and Ponce. The Program sub-contracts the Department of Health, at the island and municipal levels, to offer reproductive health services at the Family Health Centers located in the Department's service regions. It delivers family planning services to low income women and adolescents. The program has developed educational projects, research activities, counseling, and clinical services in the area of family planning. It also serves as a practice site for Medical Sciences Campus students. The goals of the family planning clinics are to reduce infant mortality and low birth weight and to lower the rate of abortions as a consequence of unwanted pregnancies. The program goals include:
To ensure that men and women of reproductive age, from adolescence to menopause, living in the program target areas of Puerto Rico and who are primarily of low socioeconomic status, will be able to plan, space, and limit their pregnancies and practice responsible sexual behavior.
To guarantee quality, availability, accessibility and comprehensiveness in the delivery of cost-effective services, always respecting the users' privacy, dignity, and religious beliefs.
To foster the users' voluntary, enlightened, and informed decision-making in relation to their sexual and reproductive health.
To improve the maternal, child, and adolescent health trinomial.
To implement research projects on the delivery of services pertaining sexual and reproductive functions, stressing an interdisciplinary and business approach.
To create models for service delivery and interdisciplinary research for the improvement of sexual and reproductive health, as well as the quality of life and well-being of the Puerto Rican community.
