Epidemiology Of Infertility: What is the prevalence of infertility in the U.S.

Please read the materials provided in the background materials section of this module, and, after doing please write a 1 page paper that addresses the following questions:

• 1.      What is the prevalence of infertility in the U.S.? (Your response should address both male and female factor infertility.)
• 2.      What are the demographic characteristics (i.e., age, educational attainment, poverty status, race/ethnicity, etc.) of women with impaired fecundity?
• 3.    What are the demographic characteristics of women receiving infertility treatment?
• 4.    To what extent is there a gap between those in need of infertility treatment and those who actually receive it? If a gap indeed exists, to what factors does the scholarly literature attribute this discrepancy?
• 5.    What are three common causes of infertility among women? Please explain each.
• 6.    What are three common causes of infertility among men? Please explain each.

READING:
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/5/1144.full.pdf+html
http://asrm.org/topics/index.aspx?id=59
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/infertility/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infertility.html
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_025.pdf

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