Measurement and evaluation of national family planning programs

Trends in national family planning programs, 1999, 2004 and 2009.

CONTEXT National family planning programs in the developing world vary greatly in strength and coverage, and in the nature of their outreach. Periodic measures of their types and levels of effort have been conducted since 1972. METHODS In 2009, expert observers in 81 developing countries completed a questionnaire that assessed 31 features of family planning program effort, as well as other pr...

Indicators for Measurement and Improvement of the Quality of Family Planning Programs:

The Philippine government has adopted a policy called the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act (RPRH) in support of modern family planning (FP) and improved RH. This includes the goal of ensuring 6 million women access to modern contraception. Though the policy does not refer to abortion, it faces stiff opposition from domestic anti-abortion, religiously conservative groups, which...

Vasectomy and National Family Planning Programs in Asia and Latin America

evaluation of men’s participation in group training of their wives in family planning programs

background : population growth is still a global concern. in spite of the decrease in population growth and conception rate, iran and the world population will grow in coming years. participation of men in contraception interventions to control population growth is of great importance. methods : this is a quasi-experimental study, in which the authors provided group training of contraceptive me...

The future of family planning programs.

National family planning programs have been an important instrument in accelerating global fertility decline and in restricting ultimate world population to a level probably below ten billion. They began to come into being after 1950 and will probably go out of existence in most of the world's regions by 2050. The archetypal programs were instituted in Asia and North Africa. The end of the twen...