Case Study A Day In The Life Of A Traveling Health Care Worker

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A Day in the Life of a Traveling Health Care Worker, Cameroon
Reflection 2

1. Who is the narrator of the case study and why is she holding the meeting?
The name of the narrator is Christy Ngam and she is a traveling health care worker employed by the Cameroonian government to teach people about family planning. She holding the meeting because, it is used by travel Cameroonian government health care worker, and her job is to provide education on family planning for those living in remote and rural areas in our country, also she hold in the new corn mill that is part of a cooperative government-funded Women's food seems the best way to reach the majority of the population, especially women because they are the main food crops farmers. But family
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Christy tells the women that she works with the Ministry of Health. Why might the government want to slow population growth and encourage family planning?

The government might slow population and encourage family planning because, of several reasons such us:
1 - Limited access to family planning services and education about contraception .Contraception and other family planning methods may not be culturally or religiously acceptable.
2 - Children are a valuable source of employment and income for the family. It can work on the ground from an early age and as they age they can make money in other jobs.
3 - Children can help to take care of young children and elderly family members.
4 - High infant mortality rates (infant mortality) means that women need to be many children in order to ensure the survival of some through to adulthood.
5 -It may be traditional or culturally important to have a large family. (Managing population
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"From my experience, most people think it does not say this. But after receiving the education of a large and extensive myself, and I learned that the answer to the question is" Yes, for those who wish to follow God's plan for their lives, it does not. "The book does not contain this quote Exactly, because the term "birth control" were not around for thousands of years, but there is a lot of evidence in the Bible that speak the message of giving God's Lordship in all areas of our lives, not just those that are convenient, including the sanctity of life. The Bible, It is a case of black and white. No gray one as many Christians prefer to think of it as. Many parents do not want the truth because they must give up their plans and dreams to the Lord in order to be obedient. We all (at least initially) desire for restraint in our lives, and we do not. and unknowingly, but deeply influenced most of us in this philosophy of postmodernism and feminism, which provides child-bearing is an option to be exclusively by women, then, that one or two children not so good but the only acceptable moderately. Let's consider the following

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