Family Planning

The Sixth National Economic and Social Development Plan 
(1987-1991). Part II, Chapter 2, p.78.

Date:     1987-1991

Source:     Office of the Prime Minister, National Economic and Social Development Board, Bangkok, Thailand

Subject:     family planning programmes

2.3    Guideline

Promote and accelerate family planning programmes. The emphasis will be placed on groups with high birth rates both in urban and rural areas. At the same time, other programmes will be implemented in addition to family planning which will facilitate the target of reducing the population growth rate.

2.4   Measures

To achieve the foregoing objective, target and guideline, the following measures are specified:

(1) Promote and accelerate family planning programmes

(1.1) Expand and increase the efficiency of family planning services. Areas with socio-economic problems and low rates of contraception, whether in urban or rural areas, will be stressed. Special target groups will include hilltribes people, adolescents, slum residents and factory workers. This measure will be extended to both males and females. The following methods will be employed:

- Enable volunteers from government and private organizations, village health volunteers, health communicators and traditional midwives to distribute birth control pills and condoms.

- Improve the quality of family planning services. Participants in family planning programmes will be tested for cancer of the uterus.

- Integrate family planning services with maternal and child health care and other public health promotion activities, especially in the border provinces in the south, among hilltribes and in urban slums.

- Provide counselling services on family life, education and family planning, and provide family planning services to adolescents.

- Encourage the relevant agencies to establish policies promoting family planning and to specify clearly the roles of responsible units at all levels. This will enable the agencies to find common operational guidelines.

- Promote community participation in family planning programmes. Employer and employee organizations will be encouraged to provide family planning services and programmes to improve the quality of life of workers and their families.