This Lancet Series reviews the evidence for the effects of population and family planning on people’s well-being and the environment. The Series appears ahead of the London Summit on Family Planning, hosted by the UK Government, on Wednesday, July 11, 2012. The Summit will bring together participants from across the world to mobilise global action supporting the rights of 120 million additional women and girls to access family planning without coercion or discrimination.
The Lancet Series amalgamates the latest thinking underpinning these crucial deliberations, showing how lack of access to family planning carries a huge price, not only in terms of women’s and children’s health and survival but also in economic terms.
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Making family planning a national development priority
Pierre Damien Habumuremyi, Meles Zenawi
Giving women the power to plan their families
Bob Carr, Melinda French Gates, Andrew Mitchell, Rajiv Shah
Slowing population growth for wellbeing and development
Dirk Van Braeckel, Marleen Temmerman, Kristien Roelens, Olivier Degomme
Getting wet, clean, and healthy: why households matter
Jamie Bartram, Mark Elliott, Patty Chuang
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Global population trends and policy options
Alex C Ezeh, John Bongaarts, Blessing Mberu
Contraception and health
John Cleland, Agustin Conde-Agudelo, Herbert Peterson, John Ross, Amy Tsui
Demographic change and emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas
Brian C O’Neill, Brant Liddle, Leiwen Jiang, Kirk R Smith, Shonali Pachauri, Michael Dalton, Regina Fuchs
The Economic Consequences of Reproductive Health and Family Planning
David Canning, T Paul Schultz