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…
Urszula Dudziak Abstract Summary The beginnings of the training in the field of methods of fertility recognition in Poland are owed to community workers engaged in the activity of Catholic Church. On Teresa Strzembosz’s initiative, sympto-thermal method was introduced to groups of engaged couples as soon as in 1956/7. Education in the range of responsible…
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…
