EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RURAL FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS IN EAST PAKISTAN.

Autor: Gustafson, Harold C., Croley, H. T., Griffiths, William, Roberts, Beryl J.
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Zdroj: Demography (Springer Nature); Feb1967, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p81-89, 9p
Abstrakt: The article focuses on the educational efforts in the implementation of rural family planning programs in East Pakistan. The government's need to discover and evaluate practical educational approaches which would be effective in family planning led to the establishment in 1961 of the project described here. The project is guided by an agreement signed by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare of Pakistan and the University of Dacca. The pilot project, which came to be called the Public Health Education Research Project, was placed in Dacca and began its initial studies in this urban center, extending work later into rural areas of Dacca District. The initial rural pilot efforts were carried out in five laboratory villages, mainly to work out the mechanics of introducing a family planning program and conducting research at the village level. These villages also served as a training ground for family planning field workers. The basic objective at the outset of any family planning program is to bring family planning first to those in the population who, through personal recognition of the problem, are ready to adopt methods to control births. The second and more important objective, however, is to gain adoption of family planning by a sizable percentage of any given population as early in the reproductive years as possible.
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