various methods for controlling the population growth by controlling the timing, spacing and number of pregnancies
Providing information, clinical services, and contraceptives to help people choose the number and spacing of children they want to have.
Making contraceptives and other health and reproductive services available to couples in order to enable them to achieve a desired family size.
Family planning services including counselling; information, education and communication (IEC) activities; delivery of contraceptives; capacity building and training.
Controlling reproduction; planning the timing of birth and having as many babies as are wanted and can be supported.
limiting the number of children born
The conscious effort of couples or individuals to plan for and attain their desired number of children and to regulate the spacing and timing of their births. Family planning is achieved through contraception and through the treatment of involuntary infertility.
Methods used by sexually active couples to prevent, space or achieve pregnancy in order to attain the desired family size.
Family planning means planning how to improve the quality of family life. It includes: 1. taking decisions on regulating and spacing childbirth; 2. choosing suitable contraceptive methods; 3. helping childless couples to have children; 4. counselling of both parents and would-be parents; 5. developing the necessary parental, social and family budgeting skills.
The use of birth control measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children in a family.
See contraception. Growth rate. The average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country. The rate may be positive or negative. Also known as population growth rate or average annual rate of growth.
The conscious effort of couples to regulate the number and spacing of births through artificial and natural methods of contraception. Family planning connotes conception control to avoid pregnancy and abortion, but it also includes efforts of couples to induce pregnancy.
The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.
a system of limiting family size and the frequency of childbearing by the appropriate use of contraceptive techniques.
Services focused on pregnancy prevention, medical management, and related medical needs.
Family planning is often used as a synonym for birth control, though its connotations are somewhat different. It is most usually applied to the circumstance of a monogamous heterosexual couple who wish to limit their number of children, to control the timing of pregnancy (also known as spacing children), or both. Inherent in the idea is that the couple does have at least one child, that is, they use birth control to plan, not to prevent, a family.
