Voluntary organizations
INTRODUCTION
Voluntary
organizations have played a major role in Population Control Programmes since
the beginning. They are involved in every possible way so as to complement
governmental efforts to promote family
welfare programme.
NATIONAL
FAMILY WELFARE PROGRAMME
Ø During the Third Five
year plan (1961-66) family planning was declared as “The very centre of planned
development “.
Ø The emphasis was
shifted from the purely clinic approach to the more vigorous “extension
education approach for motivating the people for acceptance of the “Small
family planning norm”.
Ø The introduction of
the Lipper Loop in 1965 necessiated a major structural reorganization of the programme, leading to the creation of
a separate department of family planning in 1966 in the Ministry of Health.
Ø During the fourth five
year plan (1969-74), the Government of India gave “Top priority” to the
programme.
Ø The programme was made
an integral part of MCH activities of PHCs and their sub-centres.
Ø In 1970 an All India
Hospital Postpart un programme and in 1972 the Medical Termination of Pregnancy
(MTP) act were introduced.
Ø During the fifth five
year plan (1975-80) there have been major changes.
Ø In April 1976, the
country framed its first “National Population Policy”.
Ø In June 1977 the new
(Janata) Government that came into power formulated a near population policy,
ruling out compulsion and coercion for all times to come. The Ministry of Family planning was renamed
“Family Welfare”.
Ø The launching of the
Rural Health Scheme in 1977.
Ø National Health policy
was approved by the parliament in 1983.
Ø The sixth and seventh
five year plans were accordingly set to achieve these goals.
Ø The National Health
Policy also called for restructuring the health care delivery system and family
planning has been accorded a central place in health development.
Ø The universal
Immunization programme aimed at reduction in mortality and morbidity among
infants and younger children due to vaccine preventable diseases was started I
the year 1985-86.
Ø The oral rehydration
therapy was also started in view of the fact that diarrhea was a leading cause
of death among children.
Ø During 1992 these
programmes were integrated under child survival and safe motherhood (CSSM)
Programme.
Ø RCH programme would
help in reducing cost of inputs to some extent because over lapping of
expenditure would no longer be necessary and outcome will be better.
Ø During ninth final
year plan the RCH programme integrates all the related programmes of the eight
five yearplan.
Ø The concept of RCH is
to provide need based, client oriented, demand driven, high quality integrated
services.
Ø The Government of
India evolved a more detailed and comprehensive National Population Policy 2000
to promote family welfare.
CONCLUSION
Government
of
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.
A
text book of Preventive and Social Medicine
K.Park 20th
Edition, Pg.No.443-444.
EDUCATIONAL
ROLE
Ø As a basis for
councelling in Family Planning Nurses must have sound knowledge of the biology
of human reproduction of the concept and principles underlying family planning
of the factors which influence it.
Ø The nurse must be able
to transmit this knowledge effectively.
Ø The counseling on
fertility can be held with their client in hospitalhealth centre, schools,
homes community centers by using proper audio – visual aids.
ROLE IN
RESEARCH
Ø Nurses are essential
members of themulti disciplinary research team and then nursing as a science or
practice must be systematically studies research.
Ø The nurse know to keep
careful records and reports relating to their nursing activities and can now
begin to keep systematic records and reports related to family planning
activities.
Ø These provide valuable
data upon which research may be based.
ROLE IN
EVALUATION
Ø Evaluation is an
important part of planning for nursing services includes those related to the
regulation of fertility and should be build into the plan it bring formulated.
Ø When nurses asked to
participate in the establishment of criteria whereby achievement may be
evaluated nurse.
Ø The nurse responsible
for criteria related to nursing and midwifery component of the family welfare
program.
CONCLUSION
The
nurse are in an excellent position to participate in Family Planning activity
that is through the provision of daily care those working in hospital quickly
give the confidence of sickperson. This
confidence provides an effective base for preventive nursing care. The policies may vary from those that
requires nurse to participate in family welfare activities to those forbid them
to do so or that limit their participation to giving advice to high risk mother
eligible because of specific health reason.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A text book of Community Health Nursing –
B.T.Basavanthappa, Pg.No.332 to 334.
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