Importance Of Family Planning

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Marquez, Aaron Daryl P.
2014-51653
Eng 10- THU1

Family Planning: Enlightening its Objective, Benefits and Usage For many people, especially those in a still developing country, Family planning has a lot of negative images because words like abortion are always attached to it and is always mistaken for population control. But family planning and population planning are not the same thing. Whereas population planning’s main objective is to reduce the fertility rate of a nation through a number of methods, family planning is concerned in private fertility decision, pro-natalistic and aims to provide the couple a choice as whether they want to reproduce or not. But, what is family planning? According to the book “Communication Strategies for …show more content…

In a modern world where many people embrace the idea of liberation widespread pre-marital is not so surprising. With that, the main goal of the research is to provide information to the readers about the different methods of family planning such as traditional or behavioural method, oral contraceptives, intrauterine device, sterilization and surgical procedures and barrier methods to reduce the cases of unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and mortality due to unsafe sexual …show more content…

Long-acting injectables such as the medroxyprogesterone acetate and norethisterone enantate are injections given every three months . They are highly recommended contraceptives because of its high effectivity and reversibility. Its failure rate is 1-2% and do not increase the risk of cancer for female genital tracts such as cervical cancer. It has a lot of benefits for the user such as increasing levels of blood iron and to some extent serves as a protection against inflammatory diseases and ovarian & endometrial carcinoma. On the other hand, monthly injectable consists of both estrogen and progestogen though it has shorter effectivity and results to higher costs because injection should be done more frequently. The only known side effects is changing the menstrual bleeding patterns of a woman. Norplant implants are flexible non-biodegradable tubes filled with a hormone called levornorgestrel, a ovulation preventing hormone, which is implanted under a woman’s skin. The implant relases the hormone slowly and at a constant rate for several years (“Ethics and Human Values Family Planning”). Generally the only disadvantage of Long-acting Steroid Contraception is changing the menstrual bleeding patterns and is costs much higher than any other forms of contraception. The good thing about it is that is ensure low failure rate for preventing ovulation and it does not cause serious medical

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