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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Potential health impacts of family planning.

AUTHORS

DaVanzo J

SOURCE

In: Evaluation of the impact of health interventions, edited by Hoda Rashad,

Ronald Gray, Ties Boerma. Liege, Belgium, International Union for the Scientific

Study of Population [IUSSP], [1995]. :117-35.

ABSTRACT

This paper is concerned with the potential direct impacts of family planning (FP) on women's and children's health.

It summarizes the main points made by a working group of the Committee on Population of the UN National Academy

of Sciences in 1986 and reviews recent findings especially as they pertain to methodological issues in assessing

the effects of FP on health. The affects of contraceptive usage and fertility patterns are considered in light of the link

between fertility patterns and the health of women and children as well as the health risks and benefits of

contraception. Methodological issues include data availability, causality assessments, estimating aggregate

effects, and assessing the effects of FP programs. Suggestions are given for further research into the following key

areas: 1) the levels and correlates of maternal mortality and morbidity, 2) the effects of reproductive patterns on

aspects of children's health other than survival, 3) the mechanisms that underlie the relationships between

reproductive patterns and women's and children's health and the extent to which the associations in previous studies

are causal, 4) the importance of indirect effects of FP and reproductive patterns on health, 5) the health risks and

benefits of contraceptive methods, 6) the reasons for the inverse relationship between breast feeding and use of

modern methods, 7) the relationship between use of contraception and use of induced abortion, 8) which aspects of

FP programs promote health most effectively, and 9) how reproductive patterns change over time. The following

conclusions and recommendations are then made: 1) FP programs can reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, 2)

sexually active nulliparous women should be served by FP programs, 3) FP programs are especially important when

safe abortion is unavailable, 4) birth spacing as well as limiting should be promoted, 5) contraception and breast

feeding should be promoted, 6) a variety of methods should be available, 7) women should be screened for risk

factors, 8) FP programs should be coordinated with maternal-child health services, 9) impact evaluations of FP

programs should be broadened, and 10) programs should promote the health advantages of contraception and fertility

control. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 3008-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Potential health impacts of family planning.", is(are)

DaVanzo J. The source of this article is "In: Evaluation of the impact of health interventions, edited by Hoda Rashad,

Ronald Gray, Ties Boerma. Liege, Belgium, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP],

[1995]. :117-35.". This article was published in 1995 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT2T 3008-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 8008

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