title: Reproductive failure as a health priority in the Third World: a review.
abstract: Family planning is synonymous with contraception in most third world countries, even though--in a great number of these countries--infertility, foetal death and child loss together constitute an important public health problem resulting in a high prevalence of childlessness. In underdeveloped countries much less attention has been paid to reproductive failures than in contraceptive failure and a highly biased approach towards "population control" has dominated. It is argued that childlessness represents a neglected aspect of family planning and that narrow-minded and goal-oriented population control is likely to be unsuccessful if it does not take into account all determinants of human reproductive failure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bergström
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000592:standards*; D005298:Fertility; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007246:Infertility / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards; D012307:Risk Factors