Family Planning

Overview

Family planning is the practice of deciding the number and spacing of children and achieving those intentions through contraception, fertility awareness and related reproductive-health services. It is a central component of reproductive health and global development, with implications for maternal and child survival, women's empowerment and population dynamics. Research relevant to this topic examines the influence of religious belief and social factors on family growth and contraceptive use, the integration of family-planning and maternal-child health services within health systems, and post-abortion contraception as part of comprehensive abortion care. Adolescent reproductive health features prominently, including knowledge and utilization of reproductive-health services, factors associated with teenage pregnancy, and the experiences of pregnant students, alongside preconception care and the strengthening of maternal and child health delivery by community health workers. Service-delivery and quality-improvement studies, as well as geographic approaches to health-system strengthening, address how access to family-planning care can be expanded, particularly in low-resource settings. By clarifying the determinants of contraceptive uptake and the structures that support reproductive choice, family-planning research informs programs aimed at improving maternal and child health, reducing unintended pregnancy and advancing reproductive autonomy. It integrates public health, social science and health-services research to understand and improve access to and use of reproductive-health services.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 31 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

• Health gender equality and poverty reduction as integrated pathways to achieving SDG 3 in sub–Saharan Africa
  2026 · Discover Social Science and Health
• Successful strategies that address gender-related barriers and promote bodily autonomy within efforts to scale up and sustain postpregnancy contraception: a scoping review
  2025 · BMJ Global Health
• ‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study
  2025 · British Journal of Sociology of Education
• Knowledge, attitudes, and factors associated with the utilization of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services among teenagers and young adults in Kigali City, Rwanda
  2025 · BMC Public Health
• Physical rehabilitation delivery by community health workers: Views of the users and caregivers
  2025 · African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
• Knowledge, attitudes, and factors associated with the utilization of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services among teenagers and young adults in Kigali City, Rwanda
  2025 · BMC Public Health
• Coping with pregnancy in an academic environment: The case of pregnant student-teachers in Enchi College of Education, Ghana
  2025 · African Journal of Empirical Research
• Physical rehabilitation delivery by community health workers: Views of the users and caregivers
  2025 · African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

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