Title:
Male Involvement in Family Planning in Myanmar
Authors:
Min, Myo
Year:
2015
PAGE:
vii, 61
Language:
En
Keywords:
Family Planning, Male Involvement, Contraception, Spousal Communication, Myanmar
Abstract:
Background: Family Planning is one of the most basic and essential health practices. Males are the primary decision-makers regarding many reproductive health decisions such as the use of family planning. Traditionally, family planning has been viewed as the women’s responsibility. However, there has been a growing evidence of the need to involve men in family planning programmes. Objective: To explore the factors influencing male involvement in Family Planning in Myanmar in order to give recommendation for policy and programmes to improve reproductive health in Myanmar. Methodology: Literature review using the adapted Arundati Char (2011) framework for Male Involvement in Family Planning and Reproductive Health use as guide to analyze the influencing factors. Findings: Males have high awareness on some family planning methods but it is not comprehensive enough. They well understand the benefits of family planning and have a positive attitude towards family planning, but it needs to change into practice. There is a lack of information on family planning methods. Mass media campaigns are effective for meaningful involvement of men in family planning by raising awareness on family planning through health workers. Mass Media campaign would need more than the health workers. Spousal communication is also an important factor for the use of family planning in this study. Supporting polices for male involvement in family planning are in place, however there is weakness at the implementation level. Conclusion and Recommendations: There is a need to increase male involvement in family planning in Myanmar. There is a need to strengthen and scale up male involvement programmes and there is need to do more studies.
Organization:
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
,
VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Institute:
KIT (Royal Tropical Institute)
Department:
Development, Policy and Practice
Country:
Myanmar
Region:
Southeast Asia
Training:
Master of Public Health / International Course in Health Development (MPH/ICHD)
Category:
Research
Right:
© 2015 Min
Document type:
Thesis/dissertation
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