Topical Investigation and Analysis of Promoting Family Planning Through Health Services

摘要

This investigation is concerned with the potential that health services provide for the promotion of family planning. This area of interest has many implications; these include economies of shared facilities and personnel, behavioral aspects of combined programs, priority conflicts in joint operations, long-term effects of fertility arising from mortality reduction, etc. The results of this investigation--three models for analysis and a structure of hypotheses to be tested using these models--can best be summarized under two general headings: first, the long-term effects of health services upon fertility behavior through mortality reduction and, secondly, the health service system as a means of promoting family planning.