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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 |
| Effects of a family planning program on the fertility of a marginal working- |
| class community in Santiago. |
| Faundes-Latham A; Rodriguez-Galant G; Avendano-Portius O |
| Demography 5(1): 122-137. 1968. (Summary in SP). |
| A pilot family-planning program was started in March 1965 in San Gregorio, a small (32,000), largely Catholic, |
| marginal working-class community in Santiago. An initial baseline survey investigated fertility and abortions in 1964. |
| A survey early in 1967 investigated fertility and abortions during the first year of the program. This paper concerns |
| itself with fertility. Use was made of a pregnancy-history method. All women of ages 15-49 and living at least 6 |
| months in San Gregorio at the time of the survey were part of the study population. The size of the sample allowed |
| for a 2% sampling error for principal variables. The study population was composed of patients at the family- |
| planning clinic (16%; most using IUD, some the pill, a few unprotected), other protected women (OPW; 12%; 60% |
| sterilized, the rest mostly pill users), and non-protected women (NPW; 72%). The classes refer to status at the time |
| of the program. In 1964 fertility had declined 8.7%, 28.7%, and 19.3% among the patients, the OPW group, and the |
| NPW group, respectively. In 1966 fertility decreased 78.3% and 24.4% in the patients and OPW group, respectively. |
| An increase of 13.2% occurred in the NPW group. An analysis of the data shows that the principle cause of the |
| 1966 fertility decline was the family-planning program. In 1964 and 1966 the declines in total fertility rates were |
| 19.9% and 24.7%, respectively. Variations in the fertility rates by age groups are also reported. (PubHealth.info |
| Document ID: CONT9T 1002-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Effects of a family planning program on the fertility of a |
| marginal working-class community in Santiago.", is(are) Faundes-Latham A; Rodriguez-Galant G; Avendano-Portius |
| O. The source of this article is "Demography 5(1): 122-137. 1968. (Summary in SP).". This article was published in |
| 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1002-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 41002 |
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