How Family Planning Ideas Are Spread Within Social Groups in Rural Malawi  

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Soldan, Valerie A. Paz

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Family Planning vol. 35 no. 04 (Dec. 2004), page 275-290.
Topik: Family Planning; Social Groups; The Study's Limitations
Fulltext: s26 v36 n1 p275 2004 win.pdf (2.27MB)

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: S26 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Using data from in-depth interviews conducted between March and June 2002 in a rural district of Malawi, this study explores how family planning attitudes and practices spread among members of social groups. Gender differentials are found in how people determine other group members' practices: Men "knew" about such practices from their observations of others' family size and child spacing, whereas women's knowledge was based on their conversations with other women. The discussion topics relating to family planning also varied by sex: Men spoke about the pros and cons of limiting family size, whereas women spoke in detail about types of contraceptive methods, where to get them, their side effects, and covert contraceptive use. For men and women, the main trigger for family planning discussions was gossip. Whereas, generally, women first heard about family planning at the hospital, men stated that their first source of information was the radio or health-drama group

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