How It Started, and How It’s Going: Global Family Planning Programs

Sarah A. Johnson, MILLY N. KAGGWA, Eva Lathrop

2021Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology17 citationsDOI

Abstract

Family planning (FP) is the domain that enables people to have their desired number of children if any, and the desired spacing of births. FP initiatives are cross-cutting approaches to empower people with human and reproductive rights, lessen child morbidity and pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality, alleviate poverty, slow climate change, provide sustainable economic growth and development, advance education, and voluntarily slow overpopulation. We examine global FP programs: the history, drivers, and indicators to measure impact, policy, and strategy that surrounds human reproduction. We focus on current trends of task-sharing, self-care, digital health solutions, and the ever-changing contexts with our current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019.

Topics & Concepts

OverpopulationPovertyMedicinePandemicFamily planningEconomic growthSustainabilitySustainable developmentDevelopment economicsEnvironmental resource managementDiseasePopulationCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Environmental healthPolitical scienceEconomicsResearch methodologyEcologyPathologyLawBiologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)Global Maternal and Child HealthCOVID-19 Impact on ReproductionMaternal and Perinatal Health Interventions