Family planning

List of Possible Organizations for Interview Nutrition and Weight Status: “Diet and body weight are related to health status.” (healhypeople.gov)  Target Population: General Population (Adults and Children in the U.S.) Interventions 1. Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools: Leading the Way Toward Healthier Youth • Developed by National Academy of Sciences This intervention takes a look at the school’s environment and identifies nutrition related health concerns. The goal is to improve the…

Reproductive health and sexuality is an important part of the human body. Being able to engage and sexual acts, and reproduce is the main reason for making sure you have a healthy body. Men and women should be able to receive and access any family planning method, that they need. Taking precautions and being able to control when you want to have a child, should always be in the right of the women. But in many countries women aren’t able to receive, afford safe and effective contraceptives. In…

Howden, David, and Yang Zhou. "China's One-Child Policy: Some Unintended Consequences." Economic Affairs 34, no. 3 (2014): 353-69. Accessed October 2, 2015. doi:10.1111/ecaf.12098. In “China’s One-Child Policy” says that China was enforcing the family planning policy. Enforcing this policy created penalties that were not intended by China’s government. By creating this policy the government strategize to reduction the population. By implementing this the One-Child Policy, the country suffered a…

accustomed to having large families, but some fail to realize that at these times it’s less possible. With population…

that is if death of the only child is caused by traumatic event, the first child is a girl (but this only in rural areas), and if the child has a physical or mental disability.(1) The reason why China rural families are allowed to have a second child if their first child is a girl because families are under pressure to have their first child to be a boy so when the sex of the baby is founded and it is girl ,they will choose to abort or give the baby away at…

the country's transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial nation, the population began to outpace the food supply. In 1958, a famine claimed the lives of tens of millions of Chinese. As a result, the government began promoting family planning and the usage of birth control, and slogans that read “Long, Late, and Few” began popping up everywhere. A resolution was needed since China’s…

The education of youth and care of elders are prominent social issues in China. The coinage of the 4:2:1 problem has been attributed to this. The one-child policy, instituted in China four decades ago to prevent “overpopulation, economic stagnation, and catastrophic famine,” is impacting the growth of the nation in unprecedented ways (“China passes). Young adults, as well as senior citizens, are feeling the effect of the public policy. The policy slows the growth of the population and has a…

Abortion views in North America and China For women in America, abortion is mostly a matter of personal choice; however, for Chinese women, it is driven by country policy. Everyone might know what abortion is but they clearly go about it differentially throughout multiple countries, but China has the highest rate of abortions. In America, women have many reasons for getting their abortions. For example, in America a twenty-year-old woman can always keep her baby, or she might feel…

1980, the Chinese Communist Party established a one-child policy (“History of the One-Child Policy”). The one-child policy indicated that the ethnic majority, Han Chinese, were only allowed to have one child per family. The policy also included regulations regarding the size of the family and late marriages (Hesketh). Late marriages where considered marriages between a women who were 23 years old or older and men who were 25 years old or older. The policy was first presented by Deng Xiaoping in…

A chapter about contraception and planning in a Human Sexuality textbook is crucial. As important as it is to know about sex and all it entails, it is equally as important to know how to do it safely. Chapter 5 talks about the emotional aspect, functions, advantages, disadvantages, unreliable methods, etc. I do not think people realize how many different options there are when preventing pregnancy and STI’s. After finishing this chapter I came to the conclusion even I was blind to the fact there…