Jonas Juškevičius Abstract Summary Natural family planning methods historically were considered as a separate group of family planning methods opposed to conventional contraception methods. However, in the 60‘s of the last century family planning became an international demographic policy issue and lately included into the international public health agenda. Since that time family planning experienced…
ANA Direito Abstract Summary Fertility awareness methods of family planning are based on the scientific knowledge about the woman’s menstrual cycle and the fact that a woman can easily identify the signs of her fertility, mainly the changes in vulvar observations of cervical mucus, the basal body temperature shift and changes occurring in the cervix.…
Birutė Obelenienė Abstract Summary Health professionals, advising their patients on family planning have to possess adequate knowledge to teach their patients about fertility awareness-based methods. The aim: to identify the situation of fertility awareness teaching in higher education institutions in Lithuania. Methods: Graduate and postgraduate study programmes (for obstetricians, obstetriacian-gynecologists, family doctors) were analyzed using…
