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  • Bella C. Patel, M. E. Khan, R. B. Gupta
    Population Council
    1999

    It is important to understand the social, physical, and administrative environment in which the grassroots components of a health program function and provide services.

  • Abdur Razzaque, M. Maiharut Islam, Nurul Alam
    Asia-Pacific Population Journal
    1998

    One of the purposes of family planning programmes in developing countries is to provide for the unmet needs of couples for contraception.

  • U.S. Mishra, T.K. Roy, S. Irudaya Rajan
    The Journal of Family Welfare
    1998

    Contraception as a behavioral phenomenon has been the focus of many population researches, during the last half a century. In fact, explaining contraceptive behavior is a complex theoretical effort. Learning, motivation,

  • Mohan Rao
    Health for the Millions
    1998

    On the 16th of March 1998, at the final hearing of the writ petition filed by the All India Democratic Women's Association and the faculty of the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, the Drug Controller of India gave a written commitment to

  • Prahbhjot Malhi, Jagat Jerath
    Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology
    1997

    The paper uses the National Family Health Survey (NFHS, 1992-93) data to examine the extent to which sex preferences have constrained the success of the family planning programme and inhibited the acceptance of contraception in the different states of the country.

  • Shubanker Banerjee
    Social Change
    1997

    In the year 1950, injectable contraceptives were developed (containing only progestin). For the treatment of endometriosis and endometrial cancer as well as of painful menstrual periods, (dysmenorrhoea), excessive hair growth (hirsutism), and bleeding disorders, progestins were finally used.

  • Mohan Rao
    Women's Link
    1997

    There can be little doubt that the last two hundred years have seen advances in health which have seldom before been witnessed in human history.

  • Mohan Rao
    Women's Link
    1997

    There can be little doubt that the last two hundred years have seen advances in health which have seldom before been witnessed in human history.

  • F. Ram, G. Rangaiyan, V. Jayachandran
    IASSI Quarterly
    1997

    Acceptance and sustained use of family planning especially of modern spacing methods have generally been low in developing countries particularly in India. The use rate for modern spacing methods was only 6 per cent among the eligible couples in India in 1992 (IIPS, 1995).

  • Contraception
    ICMR Bulletin
    1997

    A woman would prefer to prevent an unwanted pregnancy rather than having an abortion or carrying the pregnancy to term. No amount of legal or religious restrictions, social stigma or lack of access to professional care can stop her if she decides to seek termination of an unplanned pregnancy.