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PubMed2000

The politics of population policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran arguably has one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This success is all the more interesting for advocates of population programs because the political leaders of the Islamic regime were once strongly opposed to family planning. Indeed, after gaining power following the 1979 revolution, they were responsible for dismantling Iran's relatively new family planning program and introducing pronatalist policies. This article provides an account of the different phases of the population policy in Iran and examines the diverse elements that led politico-religious leaders to revise their views about fertility control and to participate in creating a workable family planning program. The complex formal and informal strategies that the political experts, the media, the religious authorities, and the government of the Islamic Republic adopted in order to achieve this about-face are described. The analysis is based on data collected by the first author during anthropological field research in 1993-96, by means of informal interviews with officials, with medical personnel, with family planning clients, and with religious leaders.

Family Planning Policy↗
PubMed1985

Selective effects in potential fertility: a simulation study.

"The effect of various factors on selection for family planning status and for natural fecundability is studied in a Monte Carlo simulation that incorporates heterogeneity of natural fecundability and of risks of foetal loss. Selection depends crucially on the duration of marriage at which contraceptive status is recorded, and on desired family size....The contraceptive status of sterile women is also revealed in the simulation, including users who do not know that they have become sterile. Formulae are developed to allow the estimation of births averted and potential fertility among the users, and results checked by further simulation." The results indicate "that selection for foetal loss is much less important than selection for natural fecundability in its effect on numbers of averted births and potential fertility." (summary in FRE)

Contraception↗
PubMed1992

Popularizing spacing methods of family planning in rural areas: the perception of programme personnel and the community in Karnataka.

"In this study an attempt has been made to identify the possible factors inhibiting the use of spacing methods through a field investigation in the rural areas of northern Karnataka [India] by interviewing both programme personnel and the community (leaders and couples). This paper presents the salient findings and policy implications of the study.... The specific objectives of the study were: (i) to assess the perception and experiences of the programme personnel, from district level to grassroots level, about popularizing spacing methods of family planning in the rural areas; (ii) to understand the community leaders' knowledge about spacing methods and their perception regarding couples accepting them; and (iii) to study the knowledge, attitude and practice of different family planning methods by couples...in the villages."

Asia↗