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Excerpt from Ideas on a Decision-Information System for Family Planning: June 1969
Probably the greatest problem facing developing countries is how to control their population growth. This population problem has basically resulted from the use of technology (e.g. Penicillin, vacination, ddt) to reduce epidemics and improve medical care. While the use of technology has caused the death rates to decrease, birth rates have tended to remain constant. In many developing countries efforts are being made to solve the resulting population problem.1 In some smaller population control programs reduction in birth rates have been achieved (e.g. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan), but generally little significant change has occured in larger countries (e.g. India, Pakistan and Indonesia). For example, although the resources devoted to family planning in India have increased by'a factor of 15 in the last five years to the largest expenditure in the world, the birth rate has decreased little if at all. In general, there is a great need for a co-ordinated effort to improve the effectiveness of family planning programs in developing countries. There is a need for better products, better programs and better management of these programs.
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