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Languages : en
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Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for 1992
Author: The Best Intentions
Author: Committee on Unintended PregnancyPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309556376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Experts estimate that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. pregnancies--and 81 percent of pregnancies among adolescents--are unintended. Yet the topic of preventing these unintended pregnancies has long been treated gingerly because of personal sensitivities and public controversies, especially the angry debate over abortion. Additionally, child welfare advocates long have overlooked the connection between pregnancy planning and the improved well-being of families and communities that results when children are wanted. Now, current issues--health care and welfare reform, and the new international focus on population--are drawing attention to the consequences of unintended pregnancy. In this climate The Best Intentions offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts. This committee sheds much-needed light on the questions and controversies surrounding unintended pregnancy. The book offers specific recommendations to put the United States on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs. The Best Intentions explores problematic definitions--"unintended" versus "unwanted" versus "mistimed"--and presents data on pregnancy rates and trends. The book also summarizes the health and social consequences of unintended pregnancies, for both men and women, and for the children they bear. Why does unintended pregnancy occur? In discussions of "reasons behind the rates," the book examines Americans' ambivalence about sexuality and the many other social, cultural, religious, and economic factors that affect our approach to contraception. The committee explores the complicated web of peer pressure, life aspirations, and notions of romance that shape an individual's decisions about sex, contraception, and pregnancy. And the book looks at such practical issues as the attitudes of doctors toward birth control and the place of contraception in both health insurance and "managed care." The Best Intentions offers frank discussion, synthesis of data, and policy recommendations on one of today's most sensitive social topics. This book will be important to policymakers, health and social service personnel, foundation executives, opinion leaders, researchers, and concerned individuals. May
Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for ...
Author: Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for 1989-1990
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878754205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Ensuring Human Rights in the Provision of Contraceptive Information and Services
Author: Maria Isabel RodriguezPublisher:
ISBN: 9789241506748
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
These WHO guidelines provide recommendations for programmes as to how they can ensure that human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, while services are scaled up to reduce unmet need for contraception. Both health data and international human rights laws and treaties were incorporated into the guidance. This guidance is complementary to existing WHO recommendations for sexual and reproductive health programmes, including guidance on family planning, maternal and newborn health, safe abortion, and core competencies for primary health care.
Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for 1987
Author: Publisher: Whitston Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780878754045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for 1991
Author: Abortion and Family Planning Bibliography for 1988
Author: Publisher: Whitston Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780878754076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The World Health Organization
Author: Marcos CuetoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108483577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.
Family Planning and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Data Booklet)
Author: United Nations PublicationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789211483239
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
This booklet is based on the Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2019, which includes estimates at the global, regional and country level of contraceptive prevalence, unmet need for family planning and SDG indicator 3.7.1 "Proportion of women who have their need for family planning satisfied by modern methods".