Indian population control: a study of crucial aspects

Among the major developing countries, India accounts for a very substantial proportion of the world's poor, whose basic minimum needs of adequate food, shelter and clothing, and livelihood have yet to be fulfilled to a reason able extent. A particularly pressing problem is the absence of health care facilities in the vast rural areas of the country. In the context of the stress on family planning through family welfare measures, such health care facilities are indeed of the utmost importance.
The historic Alma Ata Conference Declaration, "Health For All By 2000. A.D." holds the promise of minimum. health care and sanitation facilities, especially for the millions in the developing and Third World countries who live in a sub-human slum environment. The message of the declaration is being interpreted in India as an imperative to growth and economic development, and the concerred authorities have been attempting to mobilise all efforts to implement the programme.
The present study focuses on family planning in terms of the crucial aspects of the functioning of multipurpose health workers who are entrusted with the task of educating the rural people in health care and family planning methods by attempting to convince them of the many benefits of fewer children. These health workers may be described as the grass root educators, performing in a vast system of health and family welfare administration which extends across the entire country. Their role is therefore of prime significance.
This book should be of immense use to policy-makers, researchers, population studies scholars and experts and also health and family welfare administrators.