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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
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| The role of family planning and targeted credit programs in demographic |
| Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1996. vii, 32 p. World Bank Discussion Paper No. |
| A household survey conducted in Bangladesh by the World Bank indicated that both family planning programs and |
| credit programs targeted at poor rural residents have been effective in reducing fertility and infant mortality. It appears |
| that, while supply side services related to health and family planning influence household demand for |
| contraceptives and family health, credit programs that improve household income and employment opportunities |
| increase demand for these services. Included in the survey were 1800 households randomly selected from 87 |
| villages in Bangladesh that did or did not have access to small-scale credit schemes such as the Grameen Bank, |
| the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), or the Bangladesh Rural Development Bank (BRDB). The |
| total fertility rate was 4.8% in the survey area as a whole compared with a national rate of 5.4%. This rate was lowest |
| (4.6%) in BRDB areas and highest (5.1%) in BRAC areas; in between were Grameen Bank areas (4.9%) and areas |
| unserved by a credit program (4.7%). Contraceptive use and fertility were influenced in the desired directions by |
| younger maternal age, a secondary school education or above, living in an extended family household, adequate |
| female wages, the existence in the village of a credit program, and the presence of a source of contraceptive supply. |
| Improved parental income and education had the greatest impact on reducing infant mortality. The policy emphasis |
| in rural Bangladesh should be to promote the educational status of men and women to raise productivity, which, in |
| turn, will increase contraceptive use and reduce infant mortality in a more sustained way than the provision of credit |
| programs and family planning and health services. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2083-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The role of family planning and targeted credit programs in |
| demographic change in Bangladesh.", is(are) Khandker SR; Latif MA. The source of this article is "Washington, |
| D.C., World Bank, 1996. vii, 32 p. World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337". This article was published in 1996 in |
| English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2083-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: |
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