The Chinese family policies are shaped by the country’s political, socioeconomic, and cultural contexts and have evolved over the years. China has passed its most significant family policies and laws in marriage; child rearing; child, women, and elderly protection; family planning; and health care in the past 60 years. This chapter will cover the most important laws and policies that affect Chi...

background: nowadays, the concept of family planning has been detached from the population control and it is expressed as an essential element in women’s reproductive rights, empowering them and promoting their status in society. family planning services have an important role in fertility decisions using contraception methods in women. this study was carried out to explore the experience of wo...

An emerging dimension of 21(st) century integrative biology is knowledge translation in global health. The maternal mortality rate in Somalia is amongst the highest in the world. We set out to study the "know-do" gap in family planning measures in Somalia, with a view to inform future interventions for knowledge integration between theory and practice. We interviewed 360 Somali females of repro...

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...

OBJECTIVES To study the influence of population policy and boy preference on the sibling structure, that is, in which order and combinations boys and girls are born into families. DESIGN A population-based survey with a representative sample of new mothers in 2008-2009 in rural China. SETTING Two provinces (Anhui and Shaanxi) where authorisation for a second child was usually given if the f...

Post-abortion family planning (PAFP) has been proposed as a key strategy to decrease unintended pregnancy and repeat induced abortions. However, the accessibility and quality of PAFP services remain a challenge in many countries including China where more than 10 million unintended pregnancies occur each year. Most of these unwanted pregnancies end in repeated induced abortions. This paper aims...

Lower fertility has several benefits at the individual level: fewer births are associated with better health and schooling outcomes for women and their children, with higher household income and wealth, and with improved labour market opportunities for women. Indonesia established a national family planning programme in 1969 and total fertility has declined rapidly since but there is little con...

BACKGROUND A significant number of women in low and middle income countries (L-MICs) who need any family planning, experience a lack in access to modern effective methods. This study was conducted to review potential cost effectiveness of scaling up family planning interventions in these regions from the published literatures and assess their implication for policy and future research. STUDY ...

CONTEXT In California, the adolescent birthrate among Hispanics is three times that among whites. Because Hispanics are projected to make up one-half of the state's adolescents by 2020, it is important to determine how cultural and health policy-relevant factors are linked to this group's use of family planning services. METHODS Data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey were used ...

Family planning programmes are costly to implement, so it is critical to determine their effect. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to determine the impact of new family planning clinics on knowledge, contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning, amongst married women in urban poor areas of six secondary cities of Pakistan. Baseline (n=5,338) and end-line (n=5,502) population s...