Date:
1992-1996
Source:
Office of the Prime
Minister, National Economic and Social Development Board, Bangkok, Thailand
Subject:
family planning services,
IEC
Text:
(1)
Expand family planning services to cover all target groups and
maintain the high acceptance rates in areas where family planning services are
already widely available via the following measures:
(1.1) Increase the capability
and efficiency of personnel and promote volunteer system to assist in
expanding family planning services in slum communities, together with the
improvement of maternal and child care services.
(1.2) Integrate family
planning services with other development activities.
(1.3) Improve information
system on fertility conditions and the practice of family planning among the
special target groups.
(2)
Carry out public relations campaigns on family planning and
population and development.
(2.1) Carry out public
relations campaigns on the costs and disadvantages of having too many
children, as well as on instilling through the formal and non-formal school
systems the proper value of having a two-child family. Furthermore, improve
teaching methods of population studies in the school system to make the
subject more interesting to students at all levels and to include subject
matters on promotion of quality of the population and the environment.
(2.2) Promote roles of
private and community organizations, as well as cooperation and coordination
among public agencies, private organizations and communities, particularly
community leaders in carrying out campaigns on family planning, and creation
of understanding concerning impacts of population on development.
(2.3) Carry out campaigns to
create understanding among newly married couples concerning their readiness to
raise a child, and the roles and joint responsibilities of both parents in
bringing up children.
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