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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Natural family planning: an overview.

AUTHORS

Lanctot CA

SOURCE

In: Family Planning Strategies in the 1980s: Current Approaches to Population

Problems, 25-29 October, 1982, Bonn-Niederbachem, edited by Rolf Korte,

Ricardo Keim Petra Osinski. Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany, Deutsche

Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit, 1983. :203-16.

ABSTRACT

This article reviews the definition of natural family planning (NFP), the history of its recent development, and the

major NFP systems. Over the past 20 years, NFP methods have been gradually developed through the efforts of

small grass-roots programs primarily outside of the major scientific centers and family planning programs. As NFP

teacher training programs have been initiated to meet growing interest in this area, special efforts have been

undertaken to standardize the tasks of NFP teachers. These tasks include both teaching clients to recognize fertile

and infertile days of the menstrual cycle and monitoring the client's use of NFP. Specification of objectives and

continuing evaluation are the key elements in an effective training system. Although NFP has gained increasing

respectability and credibility in recent years, there remains a need to expand the movement so that quality services

can be offered to larger numbers of potential clients. The challenges of the future will be to further explore the

acceptability of NFP, verify its large-scale effectiveness, and establish its relative cost-effectiveness so that NFP can

gradually assume a role within national family planning programs. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT5T 2018-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Natural family planning: an overview.", is(are) Lanctot CA.

The source of this article is "In: Family Planning Strategies in the 1980s: Current Approaches to Population

Problems, 25-29 October, 1982, Bonn-Niederbachem, edited by Rolf Korte, Ricardo Keim Petra Osinski. Eschborn,

Federal Republic of Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit, 1983. :203-16.". This article

was published in 1983 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT5T 2018-06. All rights reserved

with PubHealth.info) PIN: 22018

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