Family-planning services in a low-performing rural area of Bangladesh: insights from field observations.
J Health Popul Nutr
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2001 Sep; 19(3): 209-14
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in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-681
ABSTRACT
This paper mainly reports the results of an observational study carried out during 1994-1995 in five rural unions of Bangladesh to identify the barriers to adoption of family-planning methods. At the time of the survey, one-fifth of 1,889 mothers with a living child, aged less than five years, were practising modern family-planning methods. Of the methods used, oral pill was the most common (50%), followed by injectables (20%), female sterilization (13%), IUD (11%), and condom (4%). Various factors that were responsible for the low performance of the family-planning programme included inadequacy of motivational work by the field workers, poor counselling on the management of contraceptive-related side-effects, inadequate response to the needs of clients, irregular field visits, and poor supervision and monitoring. The efficiency of the programme needs to be improved to meet the demand for family-planning methods in Chakaria, Bangladesh.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Rural Population
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Bangladesh
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
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Program Evaluation
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Family Planning Policy
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Adult
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Family Planning Services
Type of study:
Evaluation studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
J Health Popul Nutr
Journal subject:
Gastroenterology
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Nutritional Sciences
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Public Health
Year:
2001
Type:
Article
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