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(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 |
| Determining an appropriate contraceptive method mix. |
| In: Policy and programmatic use of DHS data: a tool for family planning program |
| managers and analysts, compiled by Futures Group. Options for Population |
| Policy. Washington, D.C., Futures Group, Options for Population Policy, 1995 |
| This document is the second chapter in a manual on the use of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data to |
| develop family planning (FP) policies and programs. This chapter describes a methodology for using DHS data to |
| determine an appropriate contraceptive method mix for a national FP program. The chapter opens with an |
| introduction and presentation of an analysis flow chart as well as a summary of the policy or programmatic |
| questions, illustrative DHS analyses, possible findings, and possible policy or programmatic actions addressed. |
| The second section outlines the framework used for determining an appropriate method mix, including definitions of |
| key terms (appropriate contraceptive method mix, appropriate contraceptive prevalence rate, and contraceptive |
| method appropriate for an individual user). Section 3 describes the methodology which first identifies user profiles |
| and appropriate prevalence, then suggests several approaches for defining appropriate methods for each profile |
| group of women, and finally calculates an appropriate mix for the whole population of women. Section 4 sets forth |
| the final step in the process, which is to interpret the results of the analysis by comparing the appropriate with the |
| actual method mix. The remaining sections of the chapter discuss the type of computer software required for the |
| analysis and present an example of the analysis performed for Kenya using data from the 1988-89 DHS. |
| (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2531-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Determining an appropriate contraceptive method mix.", |
| is(are) Galway K; Stover J. The source of this article is "In: Policy and programmatic use of DHS data: a tool for |
| family planning program managers and analysts, compiled by Futures Group. Options for Population Policy. |
| Washington, D.C., Futures Group, Options for Population Policy, 1995 Feb. :[62] p.". This article was published in |
| 1995 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2531-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 7531 |
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