FPwatch: Facility-based Survey Data for Family Planning Market Analysis in Five FP2020-focus Countries

FP2020: accelerating progress in access to family planning.

Family Planning in Developing Countries

Recently, commentators in several prominent U.S. publications have declared that the population explosion is over and concluded that population growth is no longer a serious policy issue. “The population boom is a bust,” declares one.2 One statistic commonly cited as evidence of this is the global decline in fertility rates (the number of children born per woman). It is true that fertility worl...

Postpartum contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning in five low-income countries

BACKGROUND During the post-partum period, most women wish to delay or prevent future pregnancies. Despite this, the unmet need for family planning up to a year after delivery is higher than at any other time. This study aims to assess fertility intention, contraceptive usage and unmet need for family planning amongst women who are six weeks postpartum, as well as to identify those at greatest r...

Spatial Data Visualization in Healthcare: Supporting a Facility Location Decision via GIS-based Market Analysis

As the business of healthcare continues to evolve, it is increasingly important for hospital systems to optimize the quality of capital investment decisions. Since proximity to services plays a major role in an individual’s choice of healthcare provider, decisions concerning facility location and function are crucial. This paper describes an application of spatial data visualization to support ...

Family Planning in Islam

ازدیاد توالد و  تناسل اگرچه مطلوب شارع مقدس بوده و در حد امکان نباید جلوگیری شود ولیکن اصل اساسی تر از آن  چگونگی تربیت و تأمین آینده ای بهتر برای فرزندان است، از اینرو غالب اندیشمندان اسلامی، مسئله تنظیم خانواده را جایز می دانند.