How India is tackling her population problem

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ID22839366
AuthorsChandrasekhar (0000-0003-4790-0869, Government of India, corresponding author), S Chandrasekhar (0009-0001-3756-0285, Health Minister, Government of India, corresponding author)
Year1968
Volume5
Issue2
Pages642-650
Publication date1968-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2060254
OpenAlexW1988990866
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

The Health Minister of India discusses the status of family planning in his country. The 1968 birth and death rates were 41/1000 per year and 16/1000 per year respectively. Life expectancy increased from 32 years in 1950 to 51 years in 1968. The governments objective is to reduce the birth rate to 25/1000 per year as soon as possible. 90 million couples in the reproductive age group are the target couples. The 4 methods of contraception advocated and made available for mass consumption are sterilization (vasectomy or tubectomy) IUD condom and pill. Factors favoring family planning efforts include the support of Mrs. Indira Gandhi operation of Primary Health Centers lack of objection from Indian religions and international assistance. Unfavorable factors include complaints that religion ratios are altering; bureaucracy; cultural resistance; and the weight of tradition apathy and inertia. Proposals which will go before Parliament include efforts to raise the age of marriage consent for girls (presently 15) and abortion liberalization.

Abortion · Birth control · Business · Condom · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Family planning policy · Life expectancy · Pill · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Sociology · Sterilization (economics) · Vasectomy · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing

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