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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Population growth and health and family planning.

AUTHORS

JONES GW

SOURCE

In: Robinson, W.C., ed. Population and development planning. New York,

Population Council, 1975. p. 107-133

ABSTRACT

Investment in family planning must be considered an integral part of all socioeconomic development programs. In

fact, general health and family planning services should complement each other. The population explosion in

developing countries since World War 2 is partly the result of the drive to improve health conditions which resulted in

lowered mortality without concomitant lowered fertility. Strategies for developing health services are examined.

Goals include the need to improve the ratios of health personnel and facilities to the potential user population and

the need to employ innovative strategies which utilize existing personnel most effectively. A changing population

composition will cause changes in projected health care needs and costs. Thailand is used to illustrate the

technique of health care planning. 3 different trends in health care service are graphed and considered. The

situation in Thailand points up the need for innovative approaches to community health care, especially in areas

where access to trained doctors is limited. Paramedical personnel can be used to provide health care to rural areas.

When family planning is provided as part of general health care, fertility levels, and consequently, health care costs

are lowered as well as morbidity and mortality levels. Family planning programs must result in only a relatively small

effect on fertility rates in order to provide health care savings which exceed the cost of the family planning program.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 3070-06)

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JONES GW. The source of this article is "In: Robinson, W.C., ed. Population and development planning. New York,

Population Council, 1975. p. 107-133". This article was published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

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