Population Reports articles from December 1989

Population Reports archives from December 1989

Lights! Camera! Action! Promoting family planning with TV, video, and film.
December 1, 1989... Lights! Camera! Action! In Nigeria a music video by two well-known singers asks fellow Nigerians to choose the best time to have their children. In Mexico audiences laugh at pregnant men in a hit television soap opera. In Turkey a TV spot...

Viewing trends. (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film)
December 1, 1989... Viewing Trends Every day millions of people worldwide watch moving images on a screen. From Zimbabwe to Taiwan people watch television broadcasts, rent videotapes, or go to the cinema. While these three media are spreading at different rates in...

Advantages and limitations. (includes articles on mass media affecting behavior, and choosing the right format) (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film)
December 1, 1989... Advantages and Limitations In addition to their wide appeal and large audiences, television, video, and film have other advantages that make them suitable for health promotion. Of course, these advantages are balanced by some limitations....

Latin America and the Caribbean. (includes information on working with celebrities) (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film)
December 1, 1989... Latin America and the Caribbean Latin America has about 79 million television sets and more televisions per capita than the other developing regions--one for every six people (22). It also has more channel selections than other regions, and this...

Asia. (includes information about the enter-educate concept) (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film)
December 1, 1989... Asia There is one television set for every 13 people in the developing countries of Asia. There are almost 1,800 televesion transmitters (including main stations and low-power relay stations) sending signals to more than 210 million receivers...

Near East and North Africa. (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film)
December 1, 1989... Near East and North Africa Television is expanding in the Near East and North Africa, where there is currently one receiver for every eight people and a total of about 41 million sets. There are now about 420 stations in the region, and the...

Africa. (includes information on The Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa promoting family planning broadcasts, and on video expanding training & teaching possibilities) (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film)
December 1, 1989... Africa In Africa more and more people are seeing television, although there are still relatively few receivers--about 17.2 million, or one for every 29 people (22). Televisions are affordable to middle-class, urban dwellers, and it is common to...

Building a TV, video, or film project. (includes lessons from experience, and sources of assistance) (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film)
December 1, 1989... Building a TV, Video, or Film Project Family planning organizations that want to use television, video, or film need to know how to develop a communication project, what research is involved, and some basic lessons about influencing behavior...

Bibliography. (Promoting Family Planning with TV, Video, and Film) (bibliography)
December 1, 1989... Bibliography 1. ANONYMOUS. Drawing attention to family planning. JOICFP News 189: 7. Mar. 1990. 2. ANONYMOUS. New videos. People 16(3): 36. 1989. 3. ANONYMOUS. The poor man's lever on the world. South, Nov. 1988. p. 11-13. ...