The Impact of Family Planning Programs on Unplanned Pregnancies

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Okada ◽  
Duff G. Gillespie
1981 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
Dorothy Nortman ◽  
Jay Teachman ◽  
Donald J. Bogue ◽  
Juan Londono ◽  
Dennis Hogan

2016 ◽  

PATH has drawn on its global experience from our total market approach (TMA) work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Vietnam to produce a TMA planning guide to increase access to family planning. The guide and toolkit (Planning Guide for a Total Market Approach to Increase Access to Family Planning: Toolkit and Glossary), produced by The Evidence Project, contain practical information and specific tools to help organizations and other planners conduct a landscape assessment, the first phase in developing a TMA. | These resources are part of a larger toolkit, which also includes an in-depth market analysis and two-volume handbook produced by MEASURE Evaluation, and a joint publication by all three projects (Guide for Assessing the Impact of a Total Market Approach to Family Planning Programs).


2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha J Bailey

Almost 50 years after domestic US family planning programs began, their effects on childbearing remain controversial. Using the county-level roll-out of these programs from 1964 to 1973, this paper reevaluates their shorter and longer term effects on US fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally funded family planning accounted for a small portion of the post-baby boom US fertility decline, my estimates imply that they reduced childbearing among poor women by 19 to 30 percent. (JEL I38, J12, J13, J18)


Author(s):  
Edwin de Jesús VARGUEZ-SALAS ◽  
María Guadalupe ANDUEZA-PECH ◽  
Elsa María RODRÍGUEZ-ANGULO ◽  
Ricardo OJEDA-RODRÍGUEZ ◽  
Jolly Josefina HOIL-SANTOS

Worldwide it is estimated that there is a slowdown in population growth and a decrease in the birth rate. According to the institutions, much of this change is due to the success of family planning programs. Family planning is recognized as one of the main interventions that saves the lives of mothers and children, especially in postpartum women who have a greater need to achieve longer intergenic intervals or to reduce unplanned pregnancies and their repercussions on maternal and child health. The objective of this work was to determine the level of knowledge and the acceptance of family planning methods, as well as the unmet need in pregnant women who attend prenatal control in a Health Unit of the state of Yucatan from May to July 2018. The study It was cross-sectional, it included 164 women who had prenatal control in the rural medical unit, were invited to participate and informed consent was requested. A low level of knowledge in family planning methods was found, the acceptance of family planning methods after the obstetric event was 18.3%, while the frequency of unmet need was 54.9%.


2017 ◽  

Civil society plays an important role in the provision of high quality family planning programs. Civil society organizations (CSOs) are often involved in expanding services, raising awareness, generating demand, and advocating for an improved enabling environment to ensure women and men have full, free and informed choice to determine whether and when they have children. Despite being a valued partner in many programs, there is little evidence on the contribution that CSOs have made to family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs in terms of the types of activities undertaken and the impact that they can have. This review summarizes the evidence on civil society’s engagement in improving family planning programs and highlights the possible opportunities to further strengthen civil society engagement in family planning programs.


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