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(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 |
| Pediatric and nutritional needs of an MCH-based family planning program. |
| In: International Advisory Committee Meeting on MCH-Based Family Planning |
| Programs, 2nd, Surabaya, Indonesia, March 1975: Report. H.C. Taylor, ed. N.Y., |
| Population Council, Sept. 1975, pp. 110-120 |
| Family planning as a means of child spacing rather than of family limitation is most logically introduced as part of |
| child care. This fits in with popular demand, traditional beliefs, scientific knowledge, and administrative |
| convenience. It is suggested that the best kind of child health service for this purpose is one based on nutrition |
| care, which provides the opportunity for purposeful, regular, and extended contact with a family for several years after |
| a child is born. The use of a simple weight chart for growth surveillance is described, and the main messages for |
| nutrition workers are outlined. These messages are to encourage prolonged breastfeeding, to improve the weaning |
| diet by introducing protein-containing foods by age 6 months, and to feed sick children. The nutrition of the pregnant |
| woman is also important, and an effort should be made to improve it during antenatal care. These measures, if |
| successful, could do more than any other measures to reduce child mortality. Curative treatment is essential, for this |
| is what many people want most. The services must be provided as near to peoples' homes as possible. This |
| means that they must be at village level and must include liberal home visiting. Much of the work, including |
| important lifesaving curative treatment, is routine and can be safely delegated to paramedical personnel, field |
| workers, and volunteers, in order to extend the service to people otherwise deprived of care. (PubHealth.info |
| Document ID: CONT7T 3036-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Pediatric and nutritional needs of an MCH-based family |
| planning program.", is(are) KING F. The source of this article is "In: International Advisory Committee Meeting on |
| MCH-Based Family Planning Programs, 2nd, Surabaya, Indonesia, March 1975: Report. H.C. Taylor, ed. N.Y., |
| Population Council, Sept. 1975, pp. 110-120". This article was published in 1975 in English language(s). |
| (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 3036-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 33036 |
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