Family Planning
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Family planning is the practice of regulating the number and spacing of human births through the use of contraception and abortion. It allows couples and individuals to control the timing of their childbearing, and thereby to pursue educational and career goals, as well as to care for existing children and/or other family members, while limiting the possibility of pregnancy.
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Family planning can be a controversial topic among different religious and cultural groups, and even at times within the medical community. Nonetheless, the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Women’s Association, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and the Society for Adolescent Medicine promote unbiased access to a wide range of family planning options as a fundamental...
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Limmer, J., Floyd, S. (2013). Family Planning. In: Gellman, M.D., Turner, J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1005-9_1316
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Family Planning – A global handbook for providers
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Principles of Integration of Family Planning and Counselling, Postpartum FP, Resources and Financing, Effects of Covid-19 on FP, Telemedicine
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A. Required reading
Go over the following presentations:
- Family planning counselling: An introduction
- Postpartum family planning
- Resources and financing on reproductive health and family planning
- Family planning services during the COVID 19 pandemic
Read the WHO factsheet on family planning/contraception methods .
Watch the video on WHO and the development of contraceptive methods .
Watch the video on Human rights and contraception .
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- Complete and submit your answers to the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for the module. You will receive the link to the MCQs by email.
- Complete and submit the individual paperwork assignment .
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- Addressing Human Rights as Key to the COVID-19 Response. WHO; 2020 Apr.
- Adolescents and family planning: what the evidence shows. ICRW; 2014.
- Ali M, Tran NT, Kabra R, Kiare J. Strengthening contraceptive counselling: gaps in knowledge and implementation research. BMJ Sex Reprod Health. 2021 Apr 30.
- COVID-19 resources. International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO).
- Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers (3rd Edition, 2018). WHO; 2018.
- Global consensus statement for expanding contraceptive choice for adolescents and youth to include long-acting reversible contraception. FP2020; 2015.
- High-Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIP). Family Planning and Immunization Integration: Reaching postpartum women with family planning services. Washington, DC: USAID; 2013 Jul.
- High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIPs). Immediate postpartum family planning: A key component of childbirth care. Washington, DC: USAID; 2017 Nov.
- Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context interim guidance. WHO; 2020 Jun.
- Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for Contraceptive Use, Fifth edition. WHO; 2015 .
- Medical Eligibility Criteria Wheel for Contraceptive Use. WHO; 2015.
- Postpartum family planning indicators for routine monitoring in National Health Management Information Systems. MCSP; 2019 Apr.
- Programming strategies for postpartum family planning. WHO; 2013.
- Reducing early and unintended pregnancies among adolescents: evidence brief. WHO; 2017.
- Programmatic Guidance for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic. IAWG; 2020 Aug.
- Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (3rd edition 2016). WHO, 2016 .
- Self-administration of injectable contraception: information note. WHO; 2020.
- Task sharing to improve access to family planning/contraception: summary brief. WHO; 2017.
- Training Resource Package for Family Planning
- WHO Postpartum Family Planning Compendium
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- Update to U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use: Self-Administration of Subcutaneous Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
- HIV, Other STIs, and Teen Pregnancy: Group-Based Comprehensive Risk Reduction Interventions for Adolescents
- HIV, Other STIs, and Teen Pregnancy: Youth Development Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adolescents Coordinated with – Community Service
- US Selected Practice Recommendations (US SPR) for Contraceptive Use, 2016
- US Medical Eligibility Criteria (US MEC) for Contraceptive Use, 2016
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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on a Comprehensive Review of the HHS Office of Family Planning Title X Program; Stith Butler A, Wright Clayton E, editors. A Review of the HHS Family Planning Program: Mission, Management, and Measurement of Results. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2009.
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2. INTRODUCTION Family planning is the term given for pre-pregnancy planning and action to delay, prevent or actualize a pregnancy. DEFINITION: Family planning is a way of thinking and living that is adopted voluntarily, upon the bases of knowledge, attitude and responsible decision by individuals and couples in order to promote the health and ...
Assignment on Family Planning - Free download as Word Doc (.doc), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document discusses family planning and contraceptive methods. It defines family planning as voluntary practices adopted by individuals or couples to control fertility and achieve desired birth outcomes. The scope of family planning services includes spacing births ...
2 Facts for Family Planning OVERVIEW USInG ThIS Book Following the format of UNICEF's successful book on child health, Facts for Life, each chapter of Facts for Family Planning has three parts: • An InTRodUCTIon briefly describes what the chapter covers. • key fACTS To ShARe provide main points to communicate to others. • SUppoRTInG InfoRmATIon gives background and details on each of the
FILM CLIPS. Video clips provided with this lesson are from Motherland. Clip 1: "Fabella Memorial Hospital" (1:40 min.) The clip begins at 6:30 with a pan of the hospital ward and ends at 8:10 after Lea says, "I have to buy one.". The clip provides an initial feel for hospital conditions and introduces Lea.
A Guide to Family Planning for Community Health Workers and their Clients. This tool is an adaptation of the Decision Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and their Providers, which constitutes one of the Four Cornerstones of WHO's evidence-based guidance in family planning. The technical content of this tool was developed using ...
The role of family planning counselling is to support a woman and her partner in choosing the method of FP that best suits them and to support them in solving any problems that may arise with the selected method. Spacing. Limiting. Switching methods - address discontinuation rates.
The family planning methods I have used, in chronological order: luck, diaphragm, breastfeeding, implants, IUD and menopause. Yes, like many, many adolescents, my first method of family planning was luck, and I was lucky because I was able to go to college and access student health services where family planning education and care were provided.
Family planning benefits for women and their societies. Family planning reduces the health risks of women and gives them more control over their reproductive lives. With better health and greater control over their lives, women can take advantage of education, employment, and civic opportunities.
Family planning is the practice of regulating the number and spacing of human births through the use of contraception and abortion. It allows couples and individuals to control the timing of their childbearing, and thereby to pursue educational and career goals, as well as to care for existing children and/or other family members, while limiting the possibility of pregnancy.
Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marital situation, career or work considerations, financial situations.
This study presents findings from a systematic review of evaluations of family planning interventions published between 1995 and 2008. Studies that used an experimental or quasi-experimental design or had another way to attribute program exposure to observed changes in fertility or family planning outcomes at the individual or population levels were included and ranked by strength of evidence.
strong rights-based family planning programmes is a crucial prerequisite for attaining the dividend. In 2017, the African Union launched the policy "Harnessing the Demographic Dividend Through Investments in Youth". This political commitment in African Union countries has led to greater investments in family planning programmes.
The policy environment within which all family planning programming, either private or public, occurs is complex and multifaceted. Enabling aspects of a policy environment can support access to and use of family planning. Restrictive aspects inhibit access to and use of family planning for certain groups of people or in certain situations.
The Power of Counseling: Changing Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Family Planning Practices in Dhamar, Yemen. Benefits, Impacts and Requirement of Meeting National MNCH Targets in Nigeria. Using Family Planning to Address Drivers of Mortality - Reaching Women Who Experience High Parity and Advanced Maternal Age Pregnancies.
Principles of Integration of Family Planning and Counselling, Postpartum FP, Resources and Financing, Effects of Covid-19 on FP, Telemedicine. July 5, 2021 - Geneva. Tasks. ... B. Assignment. Complete and submit your answers to the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for the module. You will receive the link to the MCQs by email.
Family Planning Evidence-Based Resources. Evidence-Based Resources. Check out these evidence-based resources (EBRs) to learn about proven, science-based methods to improve health and prevent disease. Use EBRs to develop programs and policies that are informed by evidence on what's effective, replicable, scalable, and sustainable.
Acronyms 3 Acronyms AFRO WHO Regional Office for Africa AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome DOTS directly observed treatment, short-course ECSA HC East, Central, and Southern African Health Community FP family planning KM knowledge management MoH Ministry of Health HIV human immunodeficiency virus HIP High Impact Practices IBP Implementing Best Practices Initiative
This flip-chart is a tool to use during family planning counselling or in group sessions with clients. It can: • help your clients choose and use the method of family planning that suits them best; • give you the information you need for high-quality and effective family planning counseling and care; • help you know who may need referral.
This paper reviews the literature examining the relationship between women's empowerment and contraceptive use, unmet need for contraception and related family planning topics in developing countries. Searches were conducted using PubMed, Popline and Web of Science search engines in May 2013 to examine literature published between January ...
6.2 FAMILY PLANNING SCENARIO (NHFS, DLHS AND AHS) The last survey figures available are from NFHS-3 (2005-06) and DLHS-3 (2007-08), which are being used for describing current family planning situation in India. Nation-wide, the small family norm is widely accepted (the wanted fertility rate for India as a whole is 1.9 (NFHS-3) and
participatory case planning which includes addressing the underlying contributing issues to maltreatment and extensive exploration of family strengths and resources in order to specifically address risk in identified areas. The trainee will develop with the family appropriate, time limited case specific goals
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on a Comprehensive Review of the HHS Office of Family Planning Title X Program; Stith Butler A, Wright Clayton E, editors. A Review of the HHS Family Planning Program: Mission, Management, and Measurement of Results. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2009.