Physiological bases of family planning. B. Research in fertility regulation

High-tech family planning: reproductive regulation through computerized fertility monitoring.

Issues related to family planning have profound public health significance as they directly impact individuals, couples, and families throughout the world. A new method of family planning is now available using a computerized fertility monitor that accurately measures urinary surges in estrone-3-glucuronide (E3G) and luteinizing hormone (LH) prior to ovulation, thus identifying the short-lived ...

Family Planning and Fertility in India

Research and fertility regulation.

Research into family planning becomes all the more important when evidence indicates that demographic profiles have changed over time in populations using contraceptive methods. For example, in some countries that have successfully introduced large-scale fertility-regulating methods, the population is still expected to double in less than 30 years. Such is the case of Bangladesh, where most of ...

Family Planning, Declining Fertility and the Convergence of Family Policies

Over the last fifty years, reproductive behaviour has become widely accepted as a major concern of governments. In the 1960s, governments were urged to strive for ‘zero population growth’ but in 1968, the United Nations began viewing family planning as a human rights issue rather than focusing only on population control and demographics. By the 1990s, UN documents were empowering women in matte...

Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines

This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines using the series of nationally representative Family Planning Surveys conducted annually since 1999 augmented by census and other survey data. Its contribution lies on providing recent and nationally representative empirical evidence on the long running but largely unresolved de...