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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 |
| Adding choice to the contraceptive mix: lessons from Indonesia. |
| ASIA-PACIFIC POPULATION AND POLICY. 1991 Dec;(19):1-4. |
| Researchers asked 1945 women of reproductive age living in East Java, Indonesia what contraceptive method they |
| preferred during the women's 1st visit to a government family planning clinic. Soon after field workers introduced |
| them to a method, the researchers asked the women what method the field workers suggested and what method the |
| women planned to use. They again spoke to them 1 year later to determine contraception continuation. The field |
| workers granted 86.3% of the women their method choice. Only 9% of these women had stopped using their chosen |
| method while 72% of the women who were not allowed to use their chosen method stopped using the method |
| assigned to them. Thus choice was a key factor in sustained use of contraceptives. Further if family planning |
| workers stick to a mutual participation of both themselves and their clients, they respect clients' method choices and, |
| by informing clients about the chosen method, they strengthen clients' decision making. In the early 1990s, another |
| researcher had developed a system to determine contraceptive needs at various stages of the reproductive period |
| (before 1st marriage, after 1st marriage but prior to 1st birth, after 1st birth but prior to last birth, and after last birth). |
| She applied observed contraceptive preferences for women using contraception within each life cycle stage to the |
| age specific contraception need, derived from data from the 1987 Contraceptive Prevalence Survey for Indonesia, to |
| determine the ideal contraceptive mix. Her calculations demonstrated that oral contraceptive use was high, IUD use |
| was low, particularly among older women, and too few sterilizations had occurred, particularly among older women. |
| Thus Indonesia needed to broaden the contraceptive mix to encourage methods that better meet women's |
| reproductive life cycle needs. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2089-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Adding choice to the contraceptive mix: lessons from |
| Indonesia.", is(are) Greenspan A. The source of this article is "ASIA-PACIFIC POPULATION AND POLICY. 1991 |
| Dec;(19):1-4.". This article was published in 1991 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T |
| 2089-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12089 |
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