This paper synthesizes a six year collaboration between a natural family planning (NFP) non-governmental organization (NGO) and the National Health Service of the Emilia Romagna region in Italy. It also compares the public program experience with NFP services provided in the private sector in the adjacent region of Veneto. Midwives provided NFP services in government family health clinics while in the private sector NFP was taught by non-health laypersons in a church-based facility. The populations served by these two programs were different. Women in the public sector were slightly older and two-thirds were married. Forty percent of the clients had chosen to use NFP to achieve a pregnancy. The private sector client, recruited in part through premarriage counseling programs, was equally divided between married and single women, though the majority came for advice on avoiding or spacing pregnancies. In both regions NFP users were more highly educated than the general population.
Ein bedauerlicher Umstand mit ungeahnten negativen Auswirkungen sollte eigentlich die ¹Alarmglockenª erklingen lassen. Es wird nämlich in der gynäkologischen Praxis auf die Beobachtung des weiblichen Zyklus durch die Frau selbst kaum Wert gelegt, obwohl die Zyklusbeobachtung in vielen Fällen eine unerlässliche Grundlage für Diagnose und Therapie darstellt. Abgesehen von der medizinischen Bedeutung erfährt die Frau durch die Beobachtung ihres Zyklus eine neue Beziehung zu ihrem Körper, lernt wichtige Funktionen ihres Körpers verstehen und gewinnt eine neues Selbstwertgefühl. Das kann auch unerwartete positive Auswirkungen auf ihren allgemeinen Gesundheitszustand haben.
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