Title: From Family Planning to Reproductive Health: Challenges Facing India
Abstract: Since its inception in 1951 Indias National Family Planning Program was dominated by demographic goals. The government introduced method-specific family planning targets in the mid-1960s in which state targets were set by the central government and then pursued at the local level. However in April 1996 the government of India abolished method-specific family planning targets throughout the country. In October 1997 India reoriented its national program and radically shifted its approach to more broadly address health and family limitation needs. This new approach involves a more comprehensive set of reproductive and child health services and a focus upon client choice service quality gender issues and underserved groups including adolescents postmenopausal men and women. This paper traces the roots of this change in orientation documents the programs achievements to date and examines the challenges which remain at the policy and implementation levels and in the overall socioeconomic environment in establishing a program which truly meets clients health needs.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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