Open AccessBarriers for low acceptance of no scalpel vasectomy among slum dwellers of Lucknow City
Author(s) -
Shazia Shafi,
Uday Mohan,
Shivendra Kumar Singh
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_44_18
Subject(s) - family planning , slum , vasectomy , medicine , population , systematic sampling , uttar pradesh , multistage sampling , sterilization (economics) , demography , environmental health , socioeconomics , research methodology , business , finance , pathology , sociology , exchange rate , foreign exchange market
Uttar Pradesh is the most populated state of the country having population of 199.581 million and total fertility rate of 3.3 (annual health survey [AHS] 2012-2013) with high fertile trajectory. Currently, female sterilization accounts for about 18.4% and male sterilization for 0.3% of all sterilizations in Uttar Pradesh (AHS 2012-2013). A strategy to promote men's involvement in effective birth control is needed to reduce the population growth. Since no scalpel vasectomy (NSV) is an easy method but still not being utilized; hence, the purpose of this research is to ascertain various factors of nonutilization of NSV.