FAMILY PLANNING AND CONTRACEPTION:
Historical perspective, the rationale of FP, benefits to the individual, family, community and nation, specific methods (including male); mechanisms of action, client selection, advantages, limitations, side effects, complications, non-contraceptive benefits, factors influencing continuation and discontinuation. WHO medical eligibility criteria, Counselling and administration for various methods, Population dynamics, relation to development, factors affecting population change, role and status of women in population and development Reproductive health indicators and implication, various methods of short and long term reversible methods, surgical methods
Population dynamics: population structure, birth rate, death rate, growth, migration, impact on climate and environment, sustainability, social, economics, politics, food security.
