가족계획사업을 위한 보건 및 기타 요원활용정책 및 계획

Abstract

In Korea it is recognized that high rates of population growth have a negatiγe impact on the health status and economic development of the nation. Consequently, a national family planning program has been an integral part of the government administrative structure since 1962. The program employs almost 3,570 fieldworkers and information officers and has service delivery points in virtually every township in the nation. In past years the program concentrated most heavily on the rural areas of Korea because the private availability of family planning was much less in the country side than in the city. More recently, as the nation has urbanized, program inputs into the cities , especially low income areas, has increased. The national program offers most medically approved methods of birth control including condoms, pills , IUDs, male and female sterilization and abortion free of charge or at noniminal cost.