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YEAR: 1992

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

It all started from worms: the 45-year record of Japan's post-World War II

national health and family planning movement.

AUTHORS

Kunii C

SOURCE

Tokyo, Japan, Hoken Kaikan Foundation, 1992 Dec. 175 p.

ABSTRACT

The founder of the national health and family planning movement in Japan recounts the movement's 45-year history

after World War II. The movement began with production cooperatives designed to restore Japan's economy.

Inflation led to bankruptcy for most cooperatives, however. In 1948 the author fell ill with anemia caused by parasitic

worms. This illness motivated him to set up a parasite control program, starting with collection of feces and

subsequent deworming. He used examination fees to sustain parasite control efforts and, eventually, for the creation

of the Japan Association of Parasite Control. The parasite control movement became so successful that parasitic

diseases declined greatly. The author and his colleagues then switched their efforts to preventive health services,

beginning with occult blood tests on the more than 11 million feces samples collected annually to detect ulcers and

cancers. The new association eventually expanded into research. About the same time it also promoted birth control

because many women sought abortions after World War II, even though they did not like having abortions. This

interest in family planning led to the creation of the Japan Family Planning Association. The Association brought

the need for population control to the attention of the government. The author also became interested in maternal and

child health. The association eventually offered technical assistance to other Asian Countries, resulting in the

creation of the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP). JOICFP

established the Integrated Family Planning and Parasite Control Project which met with success in many Asian

countries, especially China. JOICFP now also reaches Latin American and Africa. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT3T 1533-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "It all started from worms: the 45-year record of Japan's post-

World War II national health and family planning movement.", is(are) Kunii C. The source of this article is "Tokyo,

Japan, Hoken Kaikan Foundation, 1992 Dec. 175 p.". This article was published in 1992 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1533-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 11533

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