Family Planning

Voluntary female sterilisation is the world s most widely used family planning method. An estimated 138 million women of reproductive age used the method in 1990, 43 million more than in 1984. Millions more are expected to ask for the method during the 1990s (97). 

Natural methods, ie, natural family planning, are methods based on awareness of the fertile and infertile segments of the menstmal cycle. This awareness can be utilized to avoid pregnancy or to become pregnant. 

R. L. Kleinman, Periodic Abstinencefor Family Planning IPPE, London, 1983. 

Any woman diagnosed with GDM should be retested at 6 weeks postpartum. If the fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level is normal, then reassessment for DM should occur every 3 years. Family planning for subsequent pregnancies should be discussed, and monitoring for the development of symptoms of DM should be undertaken. 

Aiken County Emergency Services Emergency Preparedness Family Planning Guide. Aiken, SC (undated). 

Family Planning Programs or services designed to assist the family in controlling reproduction by either improving or diminishing fertility. [NIH]... 

Antibiotic revolution has provided long and healthy life to people. The life expectancy has almost doubled. The increased population has caused many social problems in terms of food resources, environmental issues, employment, etc. To control these problems, population is required to be controlled. This has lead to the concept of family planning. Antifertility drugs are of use in this direction. Birth control pills essentially contain a mixture of S)mthetic estrogen and progesterone derivatives. Both of these compounds are hormones. It is known that progesterone suppresses ovulation. Synthetic progesterone derivatives are more potent than... 

The Advisory Committee on NHS Drugs, when examining oral contraceptives as one of the classes involved in the second phase of the limited list exercise, formed a preliminary position that the more expensive third-generation oral contraceptives should be precluded from availability on NHS prescription on grounds of cost. The outcry from women s groups, family planning practitioners and the medical profession was such that these proposals were never implemented. 

Population Information The National Library of Medicine provides access to worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertdity, and population law and poHcy http /ywww.nlm.nih.gov/database databases population.html... 

Oommachan, M., and S. S. Khan. Plants in aid of family planning programme. Sci Life 1981 1 64-66. Yoshida, M., and T. Kashimoto. Determination of sesamolin, sesamin and sesamol in sesame oil by high-performance liquid chromatography. Shokuhin Eiseigaku Zasshi 1982 23 142-148. 

There should be frank discussion about family planning. 

Vessey MP, McPherson K, Doll R. Breast cancer and oral contraceptives findings in Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study. BMJ (Clin Res Ed) 1981 282(6282) 2093-4. 

Obesity has repeatedly been shown to play a role, and its relevance to particular types of complication has been demonstrated. The Oxford Family Planning Association s 1987 data showed that the risk of myocardial infarction or angina increased significantly with weight (54). 

Results from the Oxford Family Planning Association Study showed no relation between oral contraceptive use and the incidence of multiple sclerosis (151). Conversely, multiple sclerosis is no longer considered to be a contraindication to hormonal contraceptive use. 

The Oxford Family Planning Association s continuing study has shown convincingly that death from all causes is more than doubled in oral contraceptive users who smoke 15 or more cigarettes daily (310). 

Cates W Jr, Stone KM. Family planning, sexually transmitted diseases and contraceptive choice a literature update—Part II. Fam Plann Perspect 1992 24(3) 122-8. 

McCann MF, Liskin LS, Piotrow PT, Rinehard W, Fox G, editors. Breast-feeding, fertility, and family planning. Population Reports, Series J, No. 24. Baltimore, Maryland, Population Information Program, 1984. 

Whatever the adverse effects of mifepristone, the risks have to be looked at realistically and compared with those of the alternatives available to a particular woman in particular circumstances. Particularly in rural areas in developing countries, the risks of surgical and non-professional abortion are high, whereas, as has been shown in a study in rural India, a regimen of mifepristone plus misoprostol can be used as effectively and safely, through family planning clinics and country hospitals, as in a European environment (2). 

Armstrong JL, Reid M, Bigrigg A. Scare over oral contraceptives. Effect on behaviour of women attending a family planning clinic. BMJ 1995 311(7020) 1637. 

NCHS (1997) Fertility, family planning, and women s health New data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. Hyattsville, MD, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics (Vital and Health Statistics Series 23, No. 19). 

Many cell phone companies offer flexible programs like rollover minutes, family plans, and music a... 

Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Flealth Care (2006) UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (UKMEC 2005/2006). London Eaculty of Eamily Planning and Reproductive Flealth Care. Sweetman SC (ed) (2002) Martindale. The Complete Drug Reference, 33rd edn. London Pharmaceutical Press, 1527-1536. 

Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care Clinical Effectiveness Unit (2005) FFPRHC Guidance Drug Interactions with Hormonal Contraception./ Fam Plan Health Care 31 139-150. 

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