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Influence Of Mass Media Awareness To Promotion Of Family Planning Practices
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Family planning
benefits the health and well-being of women and families throughout the
world. Using contraception can help to avoid unwanted pregnancies and
space births; protect against STDs, including HIV/AIDS; and provide
other health benefits
Raising a child requires significant amounts of
resources: time, social, financial, and environmental. Planning can
help assure that resources are available. The purpose of family planning
is to make sure that any couple, man, or woman who has the desire to
have a child has the resources that are needed in order to complete this
goal.
With these resources a couple, man or women can explore the
options of natural birth, surrogacy, artificial insemination, or
adoption. In the other case, if the person does not wish to have a child
at the specific time, they can investigate the resources that are
needed to prevent pregnancy, such as birth control, contraceptives, or
physical protection and prevention.
There is understandably a strong
interest within population policy and family planning program circles in
the potential impact that try to inform and motivate on the methods and
advantages of regulating family planning.
These messages can take
many forms, ranging from soap operas on radio and television designed to
persuade women of the personal and social advantages of smaller
families to spot advertisements about methods and clinics. However, what
is media evidence that such efforts actually influence individual’s
reproductive attitudes and behavior?
The application of mass
communication to influence family planning is a natural extension to the
basic idea that the media can inform and motivate people. Communication
efforts have become increasingly widespread in developing worldas part
of international technical assistance and government program designed to
reduce fertility. l clay, many more citizens listen to the radio than
read newspapers or watch television.
The focus of this work is to illustrate the analysis of the efforts and impact of mass media on family planning.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The
application of mass media to influence fertility is a natural extension
of the basic idea that the media can both inform and motivate people,
even about such complex subjects as their reproductive means and goals.
There is understandably a strong interest within population policy and
family planning and the roles mass media plays to get the message across
to the population.
What is the evidence that such efforts actually
influence reproductive attitudes and behavior? What are women's
exposures to family planning messages in the media as measured by their
recall of those messages? Is there any positive effect to contraceptive
use especially by women who stand the risk of repeated pregnancy through
unprotected sex? How does the spouse respond to issues of contraceptive
use by their wives viz-a-¬viz truth and fidelity?
Does these of contraceptive encourage promiscuity° among married women?
In
the course of knowing the problems and effects the effects that are
being created by family punning and the role of mass media in creating
the needed awareness, the following critical questions are examined.
· How has media awareness created the needed information that will help couples plan their family?
· What are the cultural barriers that will militate against access to birth control drugs and programmes?
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Characteristics, family planning communications campaigns and contraceptive behavior; to examine the relationship between specific media campaigns and family planning methods. Our population and sample size will be from the general public living in Agege Local Government Area and also some selected staff of the secretariat. Evaluation of data collected and seemed to establish relationship withour earlier stated variables in order to draw our inferences. In chapter five, the research work will de ... Continue reading---
