Family Planning

• An expert committee 1971 of WHO defined

family planning
“as a way of thinking and living that is
adopted voluntarily upon the basis of
knowledge, attitudes and responsible decisions
by individuals and couples, in order to promote
the health and welfare of the family group and
thus contribute effectively to the social
development of a country’’

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 Objectives
• To avoid unwanted births
• To bring about wanted births
• To regulate the interval between
pregnancies
• To control the time at which births
occur in relation to the ages of the
parent

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 Scope
It includes the following
1. the proper spacing and limitation
2.advice on sterility
3.education for parenthood
4.sex education
5. screening for pathological conditions related
to reproductive system
6.genetic counselling
7.premarital consultation and examination

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 Scope

8.Carrrying out pregnancy tests

9.Marriage counselling
10.The preparation of couples for the arrival of
their first child
11.Providing services for unmarried mothers
12.Teaching home economics and nutrition
13.Providing adoption services

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Health aspects of family planning
Women’s health

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 Test Slide
• Frequently found to be
abnormal,
– small elevations in one or
two liver enzyme
parameters.
• Two standard deviations
from the mean, some
5% of all truly normal
results will be classified
as
– being abnormal—that is,
falsely abnormal results.

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