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Abstract
Health care programs or services designed to assist individuals in the planning of family size. Various methods of CONTRACEPTION can be used to control the number and timing of childbirths.
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14 entry terms
- Family Planning
- Family Planning Service
- Planning Service, Family
- Planning Services, Family
- Service, Family Planning
- Services, Family Planning
- Family Planning Programs
- Planned Pregnancy
- Pregnancy, Planned
- Family Planning Program
- Planned Pregnancies
- Pregnancies, Planned
- Program, Family Planning
- Programs, Family Planning
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12 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
/legis: consider also FAMILY PLANNING POLICY
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History Note
2004 (1968); for FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS use HEALTH PLANNING 1980-2003
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WA 550
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Family Planning Services. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005193. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005193
- Family Planning Services. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning
- Family Planning Services. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1280670