3. Human population control
• Human population control is the practice of
artificially altering the rate of growth of a human
population.
• Historically, human population control has been
implemented by limiting the population's birth
rate, usually by government mandate, and has
been undertaken as a response to factors
including high or increasing levels of poverty,
environmental concerns, religious reasons, and
overpopulation.
• While population control can involve measures
that improve people's lives by giving them
greater control of their reproduction, some
programs have exposed them to exploitation.
4. Family Planning
Family planning is the planning of:
When to have children
The use of birth control
Other techniques to implement such plans
Other techniques commonly used include
Sexuality education
Prevention and
Management of sexually transmitted infections
Pre-conception counseling and management
Infertility management
5. Family planning is sometimes used as a
synonym for the use of birth control, however, it
often includes a wide variety of methods, and
practices that are not birth control.
It is applied to a female-male couple who wish
to limit the number of children they have and/or
to control the timing of pregnancy (also known
as spacing children).
Family planning may encompass
sterilization, as well as abortion.
6. • Family planning services are defined as
"educational, comprehensive medical or
social activities which enable
individuals, including minors, to determine
freely the number and spacing of their
children and to select the means by which
this may be achieved".
7. Family planning in India
• Family planning in India is based on efforts
largely sponsored by the Indian government.
• In the 1965-2009 period, contraceptive usage
has more than tripled (from 13% of married
women in 1970 to 48% in 2009) and the fertility
rate has more than halved (from 5.7 in 1966 to
2.6 in 2009), but the national fertility rate is still
high enough to cause long-term population
growth.
• India adds up to 1,000,000 people to its
population every 15 days.
8. Family planning programs
• The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is the
government unit responsible for formulating and
executing family planning related government plans in
India.
• An inverted Red Triangle is the symbol for family
planning health and contraception services in India.
9. Purposes
• Raising a child requires significant amounts of
resources:
– Time
– Social
– Financial
– Environmental
• Planning can help assure that resources are
available.
• The purpose of family planning is to make
sure that any couple, man, or woman who has
the desire to have a child has the resources
that are needed in order to complete this goal.
10. • With these resources a couple, man or
women can explore the options of natural
birth, surrogacy, artificial
insemination, or adoption.
• In the other case, if the person does not wish
to have a child at the specific time, they can
investigate the resources that are needed to
prevent pregnancy, such as birth
control, contraceptives, or physical protection
and prevention.
12. Family Planning campaigns
Timeline
1915- first effort of improvement was made when a
family planning clinic was opened in Myosre
1949- First committee was started : Family Planning
Association of India
With the help of many doctors and professors the first
clinic was opened : Kutumb Sudhar Kendra.
1951- First conference was held in India to discuss
Family Planning.
First Five Year Plan – under construction during this
time. Focusing on child welfare and family planning.
Topics: Education in schools, increase number of
clinics, access to contraceptives, along with further
research
During the 1950s, hospitals and health care facilities
made birth control information available
14. For a healthy family, wait three years before your second child. You can get
these family-planning methods from government health workers, hospitals, and
health centers for free.
State Innovations in Family Planning Services Agency (1996)
Health and family planning
workers are required to
regularly visit households in
their assigned area
Provide information and
counsel and motivate
women to adopt appropriate
health and family planning
practices
Contraceptives are supplied
through the government’s
network of health care
facilities and with the
assistance of NGOs.
