Can Vietnam's Family Planning Collaborators Improve Grassroots Reproductive Health Services?Tuan Anh Nguyen, Heidi Bart Johnston, 2002 In recent years, Vietnam has implemented a family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. programme that has successfully reduced fertility. However, there are still high rates of unwanted pregnancy unwanted pregnancy Obstetrics A pregnancy that is not desired by one or both biologic parents. See Teen pregnancy. and abortion, probably due to inadequate contraceptive counselling and lack of access (e.g. of single women) to a range of contraceptive methods. This research looks at the way low pay, the need to concentrate on demographic targets and inadequate training make service providers less effective in promoting women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. , and suggests how service delivery might be improved. In English and Vietnamese. Available from: Ipas 300 Market Street, Suite 200 Chapel Hill NC 27516, USA Fax: + 1-919-929-0258 E-mail: ipas@ipas.org Web: www.ipas.org |
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