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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Medical and sociocultural barriers and contraception. [Barreras medicas y

socioculturales y anticoncepcion.]

AUTHORS

Huaman M

SOURCE

SALUD POBLACION Y DESARROLLO. 1994 Dec;:31-2.

ABSTRACT

Over half of couples in developing countries lack access to family planning services and are at risk of unwanted

pregnancy, illegal abortion, and maternal mortality. Improvement of the reproductive health and quality of life of

couples are considered the main goals of family planning. Barriers hampering access to family planning may be of

many kinds. Among the most frequent medical barriers are prohibition of oral contraceptives (OCs) to women over 35,

limitation of progestin-only OCs to breast feeding women, delaying initiation of use by waiting for a menstrual period

or a prolonged postpartum interval, and requiring unnecessary laboratory tests or an excessive number of visits.

Extensive application procedures for sterilization, exaggerated contraindications in establishing age or parity limits

for specific methods, and excessive requirements for family planning personnel, such as restricting prescription of

OCs or insertion of IUDs to physicians, constitute other barriers. Many medical barriers to family planning originate in

a lack of adequate information among program officials and failure to recognize outdated or erroneous information,

such as the belief that OCs increase risks of gynecological cancers. Peruvian family planning legislation regards

abortion and sterilization as similar when in fact they are not. Among steps to reduce barriers to family planning

should be improved provision of information to health workers and the general population, increasing the variety of

methods available, improving access to family planning, revising standards and norms of care as necessary, and

improving the quality of services. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 4092-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Medical and sociocultural barriers and contraception.

[Barreras medicas y socioculturales y anticoncepcion.]", is(are) Huaman M. The source of this article is "SALUD

POBLACION Y DESARROLLO. 1994 Dec;:31-2.". This article was published in 1994 in Spanish language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 4092-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 9092

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