The Calabar Rural Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10797101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugene Weiss (corresponding author), A A Udo |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 47 |
| Publication date | 1981-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Family Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1966272 |
| PMID | 7222171 |
| OpenAlex | W1974341750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Presents an analysis of an attempt to introduce family planning to a rural area of southeastern Nigeria that has been the site of a 5 year integrated MCH/FP project. The problems of conducting and interpreting programmatic research among communities with virtually no previous use of modern contraception are also described. It was found that the introduction of modern birth control methods is hindered by a number of linguistic, cultural, and practical problems and that these methods have only minimally replaced the traditional practice of child spacing through postpartum abstinence. While the desire to use moderm family planning appears to exceed actual use, it is felt that the prevailing pronatalist values and the perceived side effects of the methods will keep both their acceptance and use-effectiveness levels low
Abstinence · Birth control · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Family planning · Population · Population control · Psychiatry · Research methodology · Rural area · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 1984 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |