The Family Planning Project as a birth control policy has been enthusiastically carried out by the government since 1962. But gradually it get less enthusiastic. Therefore, it is required to establish a more comprehensive and systematic plan and to carry out it thoroughly. And it is needless to say that people´s knowledge about family planning, their attitudes and their practice should be concretely comprehended.
Taking these things into consideration, this study surveys the general situation on family planning among 237 married women of less than 34 years in Group 6 -dong, one of target areas for Korea University Health Project from Sep. 17, 1984 to Oct. 13, 1984.
The results are as follows;
1) Most of the subjects(62.8%) want 2 children and 13.6% want one child. But sonpreference consciousiness is remarkably revealed among them, which is thought to caruse social inequality between man and woman. Therefore, it needs to change the traditional son-preference convention, for equality of all men regardless of sex.
2) The rate of induced abortion experience by person is 61.6% and the average frequency is 1.4. Almost all the induced abortion are carreied out at clinics and hospitals during 2~3 months after conception. To prevent these unnecessary conception and induced abortion in view of maternal health, ethics and economics, proper contraceptive measures should be emphasized.
3) Temporary contraceptives should be sold more widely in the basis of free-trade in order to practice the intensive and comprehensive family planning because the degree which Health Center has been utilized for buying temporary contraceptives is low.
4) There are serious problems such as the side-effects and the lack of follow-up care in permanent contraceptives. Those lower the practice rate of permanent contraception. Therefore it is necessary to improve the quality of permanent contraception practice and strengthen the follow-up care.
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