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Publications on impact of family planning on women�s lives available
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Several publications from the Women's Studies Project (WSP), a five-
year research project on the impact of family planning on women's
lives, are now available on the Family Health International (FHI)
website at

http://www.fhi.org.

To request printed copies of the publications send a message to:
Ms. Debbie Crumpler, Publications Coordinator,
Family Health International,
P.O. Box 13950, Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27709, USA
or
e-mail: dcrumpler@fhi.org

The WSP supports social and behavioral science research on the
immediate and long-term consequences for women of family planning
programs and methods, with the aim of improving family planning and
reproductive health policies and programs through increased
knowledge of the needs and perspectives of women. The project is
supported by a cooperative agreement from USAID to FHI.

Under the direction of Dr. Nancy Williamson, studies are under way
in Bolivia, Brazil, Jamaica, Egypt, Mali, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, and
the Philippines. A study in China is being funded by the Rockefeller
Foundation.

1. CASE STUDIES OF TWO WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECTS IN BOLIVIA

by Susan Paulson, Elena Gisbert and Mery Quit

These case studies profile the women-centered health programs of La
Casa de la Mujer (The Women's House) in Santa Cruz and the Kumar
Warmi (Healthy Woman) clinic administered by the Center for
Information and Development for Women (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both
projects view health care services as one in a continuum of a
services necessary to ensure women's well-being and quality of life,
and both programs include participants in the design and delivery of
health services. La Casa's program focuses on women's empowerment,
and CIDEM's program focuses on transforming health care and
educational processes.

2. CASE STUDY OF THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF JAMAICA FOUNDATION PROGRAM
FOR ADOLESCENT MOTHERS

by Barbara Barnett, Elizabeth Eggleston, Jean Jackson and Karen
Hardee

This case study focuses on the Program for Adolescent Mothers, which
began in 1978 to address the serious socioeconomic and health
consequences of teenage pregnancy. The program's goals are to:
enable pregnant teenage girls to continue their schooling through
courses at Women's Center sites throughout Jamaica; to return to the
school system as soon as possible after the birth of their child; to
prepare for the responsibilities of motherhood; and to learn about
family planning to prevent a second unplanned pregnancy during
adolescence. Interviews with current and former participants in the
Program are included.

3. THE IMPACT OF FAMILY PLANNING AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ON WOMEN'S
LIVES: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

by Karen Hardee, Priscilla Ulin, Susan Pfannenschmidt and Cynthia
Visness

To guide Women's Studies Project research, Family Health
International developed a conceptual framework that adds the day-to-
day experiences of women to traditional outcomes of fertility
control. The framework takes into account the larger context of
social, cultural, economic and other factors associated with the
quality of women's lives as defined by women themselves. Each of
the WSP field studies are described in terms of the project's
conceptual framework.

4. FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY: DELIVERING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROMISED
THROUGH INTEGRATED SERVICES

by Karen Hardee and Kathryn M. Yount

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development
(ICPD) Programme of Action called for a comprehensive, client-
centered view of reproductive health and for the promotion of
reproductive health in addition to family planning. This paper
reviews literature on the components of reproductive health and
integrated service delivery with the aim of helping policy-makers
and health providers expand services to increase women's and men's
access to quality reproductive health care.

5. THE IMPACT OF FAMILY PLANNING ON WOMEN'S LIVES: TOWARD A
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH AGENDA

by Sawon Hong and Judith Seltzer

This working paper, the first published by the WSP, laid the
groundwork for WSP research. The authors examined positive and
negative impacts of family planning in six major areas of women's
lives: personal autonomy and self-esteem; physical and psychological
health; educational attainment; employment and economic resources;
family relationships, and public standing. In addition, the authors
explore the impact of family planning on the children of
contraceptive users and family planning workers, on men, on other
women and on the greater society.

Ms. Debbie Crumpler
Publications Coordinator
Family Health International
e-mail: dcrumpler@fhi.org

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