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topics under category "Contraception
(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 |
| Family planning. [Planiranje obitelji.] |
| LIJECNICKI VJESNIK. 1991 May-Jun;113(5-6):112-6. |
| Based on the fact that a great majority of women have expressed their desire to have only 2 children, 2 questions |
| have arisen: what are the ways in which women limit their family size and what are the acceptable measures that |
| society can undertake to avoid a further decline of crude birth rate in order to attain a stable population. With the |
| exception of Kosovo and Macedonia, all other areas in Yugoslavia have experienced population decreases. |
| Adequate data about contraceptive prevalence are not available, and according to some partial data, even among |
| those who desire no more children, the % of those who had no intention of using contraception was a high as 17.3 |
| and an additional 21.2% are planning to rely on less effective contraceptive methods. Consequently, there has been |
| a relatively high number of induced abortions in Croatia in 1989 (43,227 or 77.7/100 live births). To improve this |
| unfavorable situation, the medical profession has had to promote a wider use of contraception, especially for the |
| more effective methods. A decline in the crude birth rate, however, can be corrected only through a complex series of |
| activities over a long period of time which would, at the same time, result in an improvement in the standard of living. |
| With that result, more women would want to have more than 2 children and would thus avoid the trend toward a |
| population decline in some parts of the country. On the other hand, any restrictions of legal rights and the availability |
| of contraceptive methods would be anachronistic and unacceptable; the only predictable result would be an |
| increase in illegal abortions with its subsequent health risks and life-threatening conditions. (summaries in SCR, |
| ENG) (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2501-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning. [Planiranje obitelji.]", is(are) Randic L. |
| The source of this article is "LIJECNICKI VJESNIK. 1991 May-Jun;113(5-6):112-6.". This article was published in |
| 1991 in Croatian language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 2501-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 12501 |
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