Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Contraceptive Use among Urban Women in the Melanesian Countries in the South Pacific: A Case Study of Port Vila Town in Vanuatu
Jayayaman, T.K. | February 1995
Abstract
Results of this first-ever survey on the current use of contraceptives among the married women of reproductive age group living in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, are encouraging. The results show that socioeconomic policies aimed at empowerment of women through improved opportunities for education and employment to improve their status would contribute to higher motivation for limiting family size. Further, improved health care and child health programs would contribute to reduction in infant mortality and ensure child survival so that the desire to have more children on the grounds of uncertainty of survival of living children will be decreased.
The major conclusion is that a woman-centered strategy for population management is urgently called for. The strategy should pay attention to health care programs and generation of greater educational and employment opportunities in accordance with the recommendations of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (UN ICPD) held in Cairo in September 1994 (United Nations 1994). Further, the influence of mass media should be recognized and harnessed, supplemented bv improved counseling advice and greater number of visits by family health workers to married women in the reproductive age group.
Citation
Jayayaman, T.K.. 1995. Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Contraceptive Use among Urban Women in the Melanesian Countries in the South Pacific: A Case Study of Port Vila Town in Vanuatu. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3166. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
0117-5492
Keywords
Gender
Gender Bias
Gender Differences
Gender Discrimination
Gender Equality
Gender Gaps
Gender Inequality
Gender Issues
Gender Relations
Gender Roles
Women's Health Services
Women's Health
Urban Health Services
Rural Health Services
Maternal Health Service
Health Service Delivery
Health Care Access
Education, Health and Social Protection
Comparative Analysis
Social Research
Sex Discrimination
Employment Discrimination
Women's Rights
Equal Opportunity
Equal Pay
Feminism
Men's Role
Women's Role
Prenatal Care
Health Care Services
Basic Health
Gender-based analysis
Sex differences
Job bias
Equal employment opportunity
Fair employment practice
Job discrimination
Affirmative action programs
Sex dicrimination against women
Pay equity
Sexism
Equal rights amendment
Emancipation of women
Equal rights
Women's movements
Health services for women
Medical and health care industry
Prevention of disease
Delivery of medical care
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