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topics under category "Contraception
(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
issue in many cultures and religions, and although it is generally less
controversial than abortion specifically. |
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Reconsidering the rationale, scope, and quality of family planning programs. |
| New York, New York, Population Council, [1996]. [2], 15 p. Population Council |
| A preoccupation with fertility decline has compromised the quality of many national family planning programs and |
| resulted in stringent performance targets that restrict the choice of methods offered to clients and--in some cases-- |
| encourage coercion. Urged, in this report prepared by the Population Council for the 1994 World Population |
| Conference, is a reconceptualization of family planning programs and the ways they are evaluated. It is argued that |
| family planning programs should focus exclusively on reducing unwanted childbearing as defined by individual |
| couples; creating the conditions conducive to reductions in family size ideals should be the task of broader |
| development agencies. Under such an approach, family planning programs would be evaluated on the basis of their |
| success in responding to the reproductive needs of their clients rather than on their net contribution to total fertility |
| reduction or increases in contraceptive prevalence rates. Although each locale should decide which reproductive |
| health measures are best suited for its programs, service performance could be measured in terms of factors such |
| as method choice, information provided to clients, technical competence, provider-client interpersonal relations, |
| mechanisms to ensure continuity, and appropriate constellation of services (e.g., safe abortion, treatment of sexually |
| transmitted diseases). (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2050-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Reconsidering the rationale, scope, and quality of family |
| planning programs.", is(are) Population Council. The source of this article is "New York, New York, Population |
| Council, [1996]. [2], 15 p. Population Council Issues Papers". This article was published in 1996 in English |
| language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2050-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 7050 |
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