Health Care Activity
family planning
fam·i·ly plan·ning
Subclass of:
Reproductive Health Services; Community Health Services
Definitions related to family planning:
  • Practices designed to plan and space pregnancy within the context of values, attitudes, and beliefs.
    The Omaha System
    Omaha Systems, 2005
  • Programs or services designed to assist the family in controlling reproduction by either improving or diminishing fertility; planning intended to determine the number and spacing of one's children through birth control or methods which promote reproduction.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (family planning services) 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.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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