Social and Economic Benefits

Bissell, M. (2000). Socio-economic outcomes of teen pregnancy and parenthood: A review of the literature. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 9, 191-204.

Chesson, H.W., Blandford, J.M., Gift, T.L., Tao, G., & Irwin, K.L. (2004). The estimated direct medical cost of sexually transmitted diseases among American youth, 2000. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 36, 11-19.

Public Health Agency of Canada . (2005). Supplement: 2002 Canadian sexually transmitted infections surveillance report. Canadian Communicable Disease Report, 31S2.

SIECCAN. (2004). Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Canada : a report card in 2004. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 13, 67-81.

Trussell, J., Koenig, J, Stewart, F. & Darroch, J. (1997). Medical care cost savings from adolescent contraceptive use. Family Planning Perspectives, 29, 248-255, 295.

Wang, L.Y., Davis., M., Robin, L., et al. (2000). Economic evaluation of Safer Choices: a school-based human immunodeficiency virus, other sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy prevention program. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 154, 1017-1024.

Wang, L.Y., Burstein, G.R., & Cohen, D.A. (2002). An economic evaluation of a school-based sexually transmitted disease screening program. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 29, 737-745.

Yeh, J.M., Hook, E.W., & Goldie, S.J. (2003). A refined estimate of the lifetime cost of pelvic inflammatory disease. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 30, 369-378.