Ngom P
Demographic Surveillance System, Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana.
Stud Fam Plann. 1997 Sep;28(3):192-202.
This article introduces the concept of men's unmet need for family planning and explains its programmatic relevance. Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of Ghana (1988, 1993) and Kenya (1989, 1993), married men are found to have high levels of unmet need for family planning that are comparable to, although slightly lower than, those for women. The importance of men's unmet need is demonstrated when the analysis is restricted to marital pairs in the DHS samples; trends in the joint unmet need of husbands and wives are shown to be closely associated with the nature of the fertility transitions occurring in Ghana and Kenya. Because of wide discrepancies found between husbands' and wives' unmet need statuses, family planning programs that foster spousal communication are likely to facilitate the transition to lower fertility.
本文介绍了男性未满足的计划生育需求的概念，并解释了其在项目中的相关性。利用加纳（1988年、1993年）和肯尼亚（1989年、1993年）人口与健康调查（DHS）的数据，发现已婚男性未满足的计划生育需求水平较高，与女性的需求水平相当，尽管略低于女性。当分析仅限于DHS样本中的婚姻伴侣时，男性未满足需求的重要性得到了体现；丈夫和妻子共同未满足需求的趋势与加纳和肯尼亚正在发生的生育转变的性质密切相关。由于丈夫和妻子未满足需求状况之间存在巨大差异，促进配偶间沟通的计划生育项目可能会有助于向较低生育率的转变。
