Health Matters (08); Family Planning

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Hello everyone is your girl little @vikkybaby, I appreciate @sahmie for coming up with such an interesting and educative topic and I will like to participate and share my own little understanding. Without wasting so much of your time, I will love to go further with the few points of mine.

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Family planning is the act of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their different births. It includes different methods and skills which help individuals and couples to make reasonable decisions about reproduction, contraception, and also the size of the family. The work of family planning is to make individuals to have the number of children they wish while also keeping in place optimal health for themselves and also their family members.

There are different benefits of family planning for both individuals and society. For individuals, family planning lets them to make beneficial choices about their reproductive health, directing to better overall health outcomes, increased educational and economic opportunities, and also improved quality of life. Family planning also allows individuals and couples build a strong and healthy relationships, as they can keep focus on their personal goals and aspirations without the added pressure of unperpered pregnancies

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From a societal perspective, family planning could contributes to sustainable development by reducing the risk of poverty, bringing up gender equality, and bringing up maternal and child health. By enabling individuals to plan their families, family planning programs could help alleviate the focus on healthcare systems and social services, rising to overall economic growth and stability. To add, family planning plays a very important role in environmental conservation by reducing the strain on natural resources and giving way to sustainable living practices

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There are different methods of family planning available, which might include hormonal contraceptives, barrier methods, intrauterine devices (IUDs), sterilization, and natural family planning methods. Hormonal contraceptives, which are birth control pills and implants, work by taking off ovulation and thickening cervical mucus to block sperm from working on an egg. Barrier methods, which are condoms and diaphragms, work by physically protecting the sperm from getting to the egg. IUDs are small in size, T-shaped devices which are inserted into the uterus in order to prevent pregnancy, while sterilization means the surgical procedures to foreverly block the fallopian tubes or vas deferens. Natural family planning methods involve tracking menstrual cycles and also avoiding intercourse during fertile periods.

The economic implications of family planning on households and communities are important. By enabling individuals to plan their families, family planning programs could help in reducing the financial burden of training children, leading to raised savings and investments in education and other productive activities. Family planning also let's individuals enter the workforce and race at higher education, leading to increased income and economic growth at the household and community levels.