Family planning “important”
“Regardless of population [policy, a nation must be concerned with the health of its women and children, and family planning has been shown to be an important health measure,” says the an-] nual report of the Department of Health, tabled recently in Parliament. Noting that family planning has been included in the responsibilities of the recently renamed family health branch of the Division of Public Health, the report says that such planning is needed in the reduction of infant, perinatal, and maternal mortality and essential to the management of many family health problems. “Fertility rates in New Zealand are high compared with other developed countries,” it says, “and the Polynesian component is about twice that that of the European. “Although the fertility rate over-all is decreasing because of the adoption by the community of family-planning techniques this is not taking place to any extent in the groups most at risk.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32663, 20 July 1971, Page 7
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