Reproductive failure as a health priority in the Third World: a review

Bergström, S.; Bergström, S

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Reproductive failure as a health priority in the Third World: a review

Bergström, S.

East African Medical Journal 69(4): 174-180

1992

ISSN/ISBN: 0012-835X

PMID: 1644025

Document Number: 394550

Family planning is synonymous with contraception in most third world countries, even though .sbd. in a great number of these countries .sbd. infertility, foetal death and child loss together constitute an important public health problem resulting in a high prevalence of childlessness. In underdeveloped countries much less attention has been paid to reproductive failures than in contraceptive failure anda highly biased approach towards "population control" has dominated. It is argued that childlessness represents a neglected aspect of family planning and that narrow-minded and goal-oriented population control is likely to be unsuccessful if it does not take into account all determinants of human reproductive failure.