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Journal of Health Education Research & Development

Journal of Health Education Research & Development

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Articles On Family Planning

 

Family planning improves the health and overall well-being of women and families around the world. In 2010, a summary of the evidence showed family planning's connection to all or any eight Millennium Development Goals. A mess of stakeholders have since advocated for birth control to be prioritized within subsequent global development agenda.

It is also clear that access to birth control features a beneficial impact on several of the newly proposed global development objectives. For example, with reference to sustainable livelihoods and job growth, birth control programmes can reduce unwanted fertility in resource-poor settings. This, in turn, allows women greater opportunities to participate in paid employment and to increase their productivity and earnings.

Family planning also can help catalyse accelerated macro-economic growth. It does this via the amount created when a country's young dependent population is smaller than the productive, working-age population. Known as the demographic dividend, this scenario helped produce the "East Asian Miracle", when between the late 1960s and early 1990s some countries in east Asia experienced rapid economic growth. In just one generation, these countries achieved impressive advances in overall standards of living and development which were, in part, the results of accelerated investments in voluntary birth control programmes. Women's groups--many of which have long been uncomfortable with organized family planning--were a powerful force at Cairo. They also proposed major political, social and economic changes to improve women's general well-being. Their efforts paid off, and reproductive health became the core of the Programme of Action.

Unfortunately, the new approach not only developed an expanded agenda, it also downgraded and, in the eyes of some, demonized family planning programs. An undercurrent at Cairo was that family planning programs were an instrument of demographic imperialism used by the rich North to control the behaviour of women in the developing world as a means of stemming population growth.

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