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What
does it cost the individual family and society as a whole
if the need for family planning and contraceptive services
is not met?
Unmet
need for family planning and contraceptive services
is the first link in a chain of causal relationships
that lead to significant costs to the family. These
include economic, health, social and psychological costs,
even loss of lives.
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Unmet
need translates into unplanned pregnancies, closely spaced
births, larger family sizes, more abortion cases, higher
infant mortality rate (IMR), higher child mortality rate
(CMR), higher maternal mortality rate (MMR), and poorer
nutritional status of mothers and their children.
These
in turn lead to lowered productivity over the entire
working lifetime of affected individuals. Conversely,
as the capacity of individuals, households and government
to invest in health capital increases as a result of
economic development, and
a greater proportion of the need for family planning
and reproductive health services is met, infant mortality,
child mortality and maternal mortality rates decrease,
and the nutritional and health status of individuals
improves.
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