A population growth rate of 1.22% has become a national problem and makes Indonesia one the most densely populated countries in world. Meanwhile, Malang city, which been successfully decreasing, needs to be sustained. This community service aimed help maintain this achievement by providing training on contraception pharmaceutical care aspect, especially clinical pharmacy. It is because if contr...

family planning is programming about future of reproductive reproduction. the main aim of this research was to compare the efficacy of family planning education by individual education in residential place and by health system education. in this quazi-experimental study, 120 married women who did not use any contraceptive for purpose of family planning, don’t have intend to be pregnant, were ra...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The issue of nurse prescribing is highly topical, with various United Kingdom Government directives recommending this extension to the nursing role. However, despite an imperative to provide 23 000 nurse prescribers by March 2001 and to expand this function to half the nursing workforce by 2004, there is as yet no agreement as to the occupational profile of the nu...

1 Family Health International, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America. Send correspondence to: Dawn S. Chin-Quee, Family Health International, 2224 E NC 54, Durham, NC 27713, United States of America; telephone: (919) 544-7040, ext. 473; fax: (919) 5447261; e-mail: [email protected] Despite government-sponsored efforts to develop, disseminate, and institutionalize national family pla...

Family planning programmes initiated in the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1966 met with limited success. Following the 1986 census family planning was considered a priority and was supported by the country's leaders. Appropriate strategies based on the principles of health promotion led to an increase in the contraceptive prevalence rate among married women from 49.0% in 1989 to 73.8% in 2006. ...

BACKGROUND The total fertility rate in Uganda is 5.9 children per woman, and women admit to having nearly two more children than they actually want. The maternal mortality rate remains stubbornly high. Family planning saves lives. It prevents maternal deaths by delaying motherhood, helping women limit their family size and avoid unwanted pregnancies. It also reduces infant mortality. SETTING ...

To cite: Wilkinson C, Halfnight D. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2013;39:78–79. BACKGROUND In 2013, the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) celebrates its 20th anniversary. The FSRH was established by its parent college, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), in March 1993; but this is not where the story begins. We need to go back...

BACKGROUND Unmet need for family planning has implications for women and their families, such as unsafe abortion, physical abuse, and poor maternal health. Contraceptive knowledge has increased across low-income settings, yet unmet need remains high with little information on the factors explaining it. This study assessed factors associated with unmet need among pregnant women in rural Burkina ...