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YEAR: 1973

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family planning.

AUTHORS

Potts DM

SOURCE

Community Health (Bristol) 4(4): 185-190. January-February 1973.

ABSTRACT

To control fertility, Western societies rely on commercial distribution and personnal initiative. 1/3 of the couples

practicing family planning seek professional advice. Presently, family planning clinics service the upper

socioeconomic classes and perhaps are unable to create an open environment for other groups. Their role is mainly

to encourage more sophisticated and acceptable methods of birth control, whereas the effectiveness of their

demographic role in determining the number of children is doubtful. The use of midwives and health care visitors

should be expanded in terms of IUD insertions, pill prescriptions, and follow-up visits. The need for a medical

prescription for oral contraceptives is presently under scrutiny, since obtaining the prescription may be a deterrent to

oral contraceptive use. Since all contraceptives have some measure of unpredictability in fertility control, it is

important to keep options such as abortion open or face a number of unwanted pregnancies. Optimal conditions

include an out-patient technique for abortion with counseling, and provisions for contraceptive or sterilization

services. The ideal family planning service would include the availability of all options, serviced by professional and

specially trained health personnel. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 75-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning.", is(are) Potts DM. The source of this

article is "Community Health (Bristol) 4(4): 185-190. January-February 1973.". This article was published in 1973 in

English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 75-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN:

35075

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