• Editors' Summary
• Credits

1. Why Informed Choice Matters
2. Making Family Planing Decisions
3. Policies for Informed Choice
4. Communication for Choice
5. Improving Access
6. Managing for Informed Choice
7. Client-Provider Communication

• Figures
• Table
• Side-bars
• Bibliography

• What can be done?
• Women know what they want
• Why communities matter
• Eliminating targets
• More methods, more choices
• "Your health is in your hands"
• Do clients have choices?
• Please Ask!
• How much guidance?
• Active clients, better choices
• Counseling continuing clients

• POPLINE
• Media/Materials Clearinghouse
• Other Reports
• To Order
• CCP Home Page

Published by the Population Information Porgram, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA.

Credits

This report was prepared by Ushma D. Upadhyay, M.P.H. Research assistance provided by Vidya Setty. Bryant Robey, Editor. Stephen M. Goldstein, Managing Editor. Design by Linda D. Sadler. Production by John R. Fiege, Merridy Gottlieb, Peter Hammerer, Mónica Jiménez, and Deborah Maenner.

The assistance of the following reviewers is appreciated: Jane Bertrand, Barbara Crane, Margarita Diaz, Alison Ellis, Bernard Guyer, Jill Tabbutt-Henry, Michele Heerey, Ronald Hess, Sallie Craig Huber, Monica Jasis, Young Mi Kim, Jan Kumar, Alice Payne Merritt, Suellen Miller, Rosalind Petchesky, Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Malcolm Potts, Sharon Rudy, Avantika Singh, J. Joseph Spiedel, Patricia Stephenson, Marcel Vekemans, Judith Winkler, and Nancy Yinger.

Suggested citation: Upadhyay, U.D. Informed Choice in Family Planning: Helping People Decide. Population Reports, Series J, No. 50. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Population Information Program, Spring 2001.

Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Ph.D., Director, Center for Communication Programs, and Principal Investigator, Population Information Program (PIP)

Ward Rinehart, Project Director, PIP

Anne W. Compton, Deputy Director, PIP, and Chief, POPLINE Digital Services

Hugh M. Rigby, Associate Director, PIP, and Chief, Media/Materials Clearinghouse

Jose G. Rimon II, Deputy Director, Center for Communication Programs; Project Director, Population Communication Services developing family planning communication strategies, projects, training, and materials.

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