Factors Leading to Unmet Need for Family Planning Methods

Unmet need for family planning is one of the major problems in India. Our country stood first position in population in the world. Unmet need is the point of gap between women’s reproductive intentions and their contraceptive behaviour. This will lead to bring unwanted child in the society, increase family burden, illness of maternal and child health and sometimes death is ultimate consequences. This review focus on different leading factor of unmet need. These are intervention of male persons decision making power for family planning, unawareness of govt policy among the couple, unavailability of family planning method in need, most of the couple does not showing positive attitude towards use of family planning method. Sometimes present false belief and misconception. For remove this curse from the society intensive awareness programme, motivation, counselling and periodical follow up is required. Effective training of health workers and good cohesiveness among the team member is also important.