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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Population policy as a rationale for voluntary surgical contraception

services.

AUTHORS

Weerasooria W

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1983. 7 p.

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this discussion was to develop ways and means of extending voluntary surgical contraceptive

services to people who need such services. National population policy aims to alter the numbers and population

growth rate, and its composition or distribution. In a 1981 study conducted by the Population Council, 62 countries,

mainly in Africa, West and East Asia and Oceania of a total of 134 less developed countries, had no policy at all. In

1982 6% of those in the less developed countries had no population policy. Governments are committed to growth

rate reduction in Asian countries with both the highest population and density. In Africa and Latin America, (the

continents with the highest population growth rates) less than 50% of the population live in countries with no such

governments. In developed countries, the increased size of the old age population has played an important role in

population policy. Voluntary sterilization is gaining worldwide acceptance even in Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist

countries, and is the most demographically effective contraceptive method. A recent liberalization in its legal status

is noted. Burma, Greece, Portugal, Somalia and Spain, however, specifically prohibit surgical contraception except

for medical reasons. Sociomedical justifications are increasing and certain countries including Sweden, Singapore,

Italy and Chile have legislated the procedure. The greatest number of sterilizations have been performed in Asia,

specifically in the People's Republic of China and in India. Increased acceptance has resulted primarily from the

recognition of the right to regulate one's own fertility, but also from improved surgial techniques, growing recognition

of women's rights, new cultural attitudes and the relaxing of religious and legal restraints. A vigorous effort is needed

for the incorporation of voluntary sterilization into primary or preventive health care. A multiplicity of delivery systems

must be used; services should be equally available to both sexes; education and counselling programs should be

built and strengthened to ensure informed consent; health care personnel should be appropriately trained and

national programs to improve information, management and evaluation systems to determine cost factors should be

effected. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT5T 2084-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Population policy as a rationale for voluntary surgical

contraception services.", is(are) Weerasooria W. The source of this article is "[Unpublished] 1983. 7 p.". This article

was published in 1983 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT5T 2084-06. All rights reserved

with PubHealth.info) PIN: 22084

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