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A. Pre-Pregnancy Health Care: Family Planning

The document discusses family planning and the role of barangay health workers (BHWs) in promoting family planning. It defines family planning as enabling individuals to decide on and access safe contraceptive methods. It describes the importance of adequate birth spacing and limiting through short-term and long-term methods. BHWs are expected to identify eligible women of reproductive age, record their family planning needs and preferences, and replenish short-term supplies or refer clients to midwives for counseling. The key roles of BHWs are to maintain accurate family planning records and support existing acceptors.

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A. Pre-Pregnancy Health Care: Family Planning

The document discusses family planning and the role of barangay health workers (BHWs) in promoting family planning. It defines family planning as enabling individuals to decide on and access safe contraceptive methods. It describes the importance of adequate birth spacing and limiting through short-term and long-term methods. BHWs are expected to identify eligible women of reproductive age, record their family planning needs and preferences, and replenish short-term supplies or refer clients to midwives for counseling. The key roles of BHWs are to maintain accurate family planning records and support existing acceptors.

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A.

PRE-PREGNANCY
HEALTH CARE

FAMILY
PLANNING
FAMILY PLANNING
 A reproductive right of all women

 A program which enable couples and


individuals to decide freely and
responsibly and have access to a full
range of safe, affordable, effective,
non-abortifacient, modern, natural and
artificial method of planning pregnancy.
2 methods to achieve FP
 Through ADEQUATE BIRTH SPACING of at
least 2-3 years.
 couples can avail of short acting methods (pills,
Lactational amenorrhea method (LAM),Natural Family
Planning (NFP), condom

 Through BIRTH LIMITING


 Couples can avail of long term methods ( intra-
uterine device (IUD) insertion
 Permanent methods such as No-scalpel
vasectomy(NSV) or bilateral tubal ligation (BTL)
ROLE OF BHW
UNDER FAMILY PLANNING:
 Adequately trained BHWs are expected to
identify and record the eligible population of
their HH catchment areas who belong to
WRA.

 They are not expected to comprehensively


discuss the FP methods to the eligible
population
IMPORTANCE OF FP
 FP prevents:
 high-risk pregnancies among those younger
than 18 years old or older than 35 years old
 Those with 4 or more pregnancies
 Who have closely spaced pregnancies
 Who are currently ill

 FP allows WRA to regain her strength after


pregnancies and avoid prematurity and
malnutrition
IMPORTANCE OF FP
 FP allows the couple to produce healthy children and
avoid malnutrition
 FP allows the couple to send their children for better
education and improved social welfare

 If the couple decides to space their children, they can


avail of the short-acting method
 If the couple decides to limit their number of children
they can avail the long-term or permanent methods

 Comprehensive discussion on FP methods can be


counseled by the RHMs in the community
BHWs SHOULD:
1. Using the latest family profiling, the BHWs should have a master
list / record of the following within their designated HH
catchment areas:
 Name and age of the eligible client

 Number of pregnancies, if any

 FP method practiced, if any

 FP method preferred, if any

2. for BHWS who already have FP acceptors within their catchment


areas, they should do the ff:
 replenish supply of condoms and pills during follow-up visits, if

necessary
 identify and record complaints of the FP acceptor, if there is any

and refer to the midwife or inform the client of the BHS schedule
for FP counseling

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