National program for controlling demographic growth
The national program for controlling demographic growth, adopted on February 20, 1983 and whose purpose is to regulate the excessive rate of population growth in order to improve the level of economic and social development, is primarily aimed at the family.
The aim of family planning is to enable families to decide how many children and when they will be born. It therefore aims to encourage thoughtful and responsible behavior among families with regard to procreation.
Family planning should contribute not only to balancing the Algerian family, but also to ensuring a better quality of life.
Family planning is based on integrated and complementary programs, including the following components: birth spacing, the fight against infant mortality and the promotion of breastfeeding.
Birth spacing should help improve maternal and child health. Because it has been proven that too many maternity wards, close together, increase the risks of mortality and illness for mothers and children. It is therefore a factor in the fight against infant mortality, the level of which still remains high in Algeria and for which the Ministry of Public Health has set up a program to reduce the current rate, estimated at 83%, to 50% by 1990.
Achieving this objective depends on the development of preventive actions and the promotion of breastfeeding, an essential factor for the good health of infants. It reduces the dangers that threaten the newborn during the first months of his life because breast milk is adapted to the nutritional needs of the infant and contains immunological elements which protect against infection.
Family planning therefore contributes to the promotion of a healthy and balanced family.
The aim of family planning is to enable families to decide how many children and when they will be born. It therefore aims to encourage thoughtful and responsible behavior among families with regard to procreation.
Family planning should contribute not only to balancing the Algerian family, but also to ensuring a better quality of life.
Family planning is based on integrated and complementary programs, including the following components: birth spacing, the fight against infant mortality and the promotion of breastfeeding.
Birth spacing should help improve maternal and child health. Because it has been proven that too many maternity wards, close together, increase the risks of mortality and illness for mothers and children. It is therefore a factor in the fight against infant mortality, the level of which still remains high in Algeria and for which the Ministry of Public Health has set up a program to reduce the current rate, estimated at 83%, to 50% by 1990.
Achieving this objective depends on the development of preventive actions and the promotion of breastfeeding, an essential factor for the good health of infants. It reduces the dangers that threaten the newborn during the first months of his life because breast milk is adapted to the nutritional needs of the infant and contains immunological elements which protect against infection.
Family planning therefore contributes to the promotion of a healthy and balanced family.