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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family planning for the mentally handicapped.

AUTHORS

David HP; Lindner MA

SOURCE

Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 1975;52(2):155-161.

ABSTRACT

Although family planning services have grown throughout much of the world, organized efforts to incorporate voluntary

fertility-regulating resources into specialized service programs for the mentally handicapped have been sparse. With

the growing shift from custodial and segregative institutionalization of the mentally ill and the mentally retarded to

early discharge and community maintenance, there are greater opportunities for heteroxexual relationships and a

concomitant risk of unintended pregnancies. While the birth rate among Western societies has decreased since the

introduction of modern methods of contraception, among the mentally handicapped, it has increased. A review of

European and North American publications reflects an increasing awareness of the problem of providing family

planning services to mentally ill and mentally retarded people in a more active manner. Mental health specialists

and those who work with the handicapped must be made more familiar with the needs of their patients in regard to

family planning and they must develop the sensitivity needed to help the mentally handicapped search for a

resolution to their sexual problems. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 2581-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning for the mentally handicapped.", is(are)

David HP; Lindner MA. The source of this article is "Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 1975;52(2):155-161.".

This article was published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 2581-06. All

rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 32581

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