Within family planning—Korea

The Korean family planning program from 1964 to 1968 is considered in its entirety. The program is financed primarily by Korean government appropriations (averaging about $2 million in past years from central and local budgets) but also is supported substantially by foreign agencies such as the Population Council SIDA and AID. The Planned Parenthood Federation of Korea working in cooperation with the government is financed by about $200000 yearly from Korean government and foreign sources. The program has offered the IUD condom and vasectomy to every couple without charge. Accomplishments include adoption of the loop or vasectomy by 1/3 of couples with wife below age 45 elicitation of the best response among illiterate and low-income families and in rural areas reduction of crude birth rate by roughly 10% as of 1968 by IUDs inserted through mid-1968 and launching a pill program for IUD drop-outs starting with an unknown method a population of 30 million was informed of it and their approval won. Approaches used in the program have included strong governmental policy; implementation through the existing health structure; decentralization of functions to local and provincial government levels; payment by government of physicians and fieldworkers involved as well as vasectomy acceptors for work lost; high fieldworker density; fixation of target quotas with positive and negative sanctions on workers; and full use of mass media. Problems to be dealt with involve funding doctorless and remote areas and termination rates. The problems have been obtaining the funds; areas that are doctorless and that are remote; the training of workers; funds for maintenance and supply systems; shortcomings of the present contraceptive methods; and the changing of field-worker duties

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• Family Planning Programs

  Allan Rosenfield, Allan G Rosenfield•Studies in Family Planning•1974

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• The impact of family planning programs on fertility in developing countries

  Open Access•Donald J Hernandez•Social Science Research•1981

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• Population Policy: Will Current Programs Succeed?

  Open Access•Kingsley Davis•Science•1967

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