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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Normative and psychic costs of contraception.

AUTHORS

Bogue DJ

SOURCE

In: Bulatao RA, Lee RD, ed. Determinants of fertility in developing countries.

Volume 2. Fertility regulation and institutional influences. New York, Academic

Press, 1983. :151-92. Studies in Population

ABSTRACT

This article presents an inventory of the normative and psychic costs attached to contraception; it is illustrated at

several points with Egyptian data. It is argued that the major normative and psychic costs are fears of side effects

and long-term health effects--often unrelated to objective risks; anxiety over contraceptive failure; the need for

discussion with the spouse; and the need for internal control over behavior. These costs, and other less important

ones, can be reduced by well planned programs of public information. Certain social changes, associated with the

nuclear family, urbanization, status of women, mass media exposure to modern husband/wife interrelations, planning

and decision making, are expected to bring lower prevalence and impact of contraceptive costs. (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT5T 2042-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Normative and psychic costs of contraception.", is(are)

Bogue DJ. The source of this article is "In: Bulatao RA, Lee RD, ed. Determinants of fertility in developing countries.

Volume 2. Fertility regulation and institutional influences. New York, Academic Press, 1983. :151-92. Studies in

Population". This article was published in 1983 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT5T

2042-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 22042

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