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YEAR: 2004

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Do family-planning workers in China support provision of sexual and

reproductive health services to unmarried young people?

AUTHORS

Tu X; Cui N; Lou C; Gao E

SOURCE

Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2004;82(4):274-280.

ABSTRACT

Objective To ascertain the perspectives of family-planning service providers in eight sites in China on the provision

of sexual and reproductive health services to unmarried young people. Methods Data were drawn from a survey of

1927 family-planning workers and 16 focus group discussions conducted in eight sites in China in 1998-99. Findings

Family-planning workers recognized the need to protect the sexual health of unmarried young people and were

unambiguous about the need for government agencies to provide information and education on sexual and

reproductive health to unmarried young people; however, perceptions about the appropriate age for and content of

such education remained conservative. While about 70% of family-planning workers were willing to provide

contraceptives to unmarried young people, and about 60% approved government provision of contraceptive services

to unmarried young people, only one quarter agreed that the services could be extended to senior high schools.

Conclusion Family-planning workers in China are ambivalent about the provision of sexual and reproductive health

services to unmarried young people, which potentially poses a significant obstacle to the adoption of safe sex

behaviours by young people, as well as to the provision of sexual and reproductive health information and services to

young unmarried people in China. Training proqrammes for family-planning workers are urgently needed to address

this issue. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 525-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Do family-planning workers in China support provision of

sexual and reproductive health services to unmarried young people?", is(are) Tu X; Cui N; Lou C; Gao E. The

source of this article is "Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2004;82(4):274-280.". This article was published

in 2004 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 525-06. All rights reserved with

PubHealth.info) PIN: 525

This article is peer-reviewed.

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