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佐藤栄作　受賞論文集

第23回優秀賞problems and opposition by husbands. Regarding this, reproductive health educationneeds to include information on benefits, dangers, prevention rates of both traditionaland modern methods, also taking into consideration traditional, religious or familyvalues on contraception. More directly, greater accessibility and higher quality ofavailable health and medical care, combined with epidemics prevention, will alsocontribute to the problem solution significantly. Involving men, who in most cases aresocially, economically and politically more powerful than women in such programsis also efficient in enhancing couples’decisions on family planning and improvingwomen’s status in decision making (United Nations, 2004). From a developmental andpolitical perspective, involving female in political and national projects is another keyfactor in population policies, and UNFPA has requested that each nation pay heedto women’s education, employment, political participation, household and parentalrole and improve the gender role in whole as from past experiences it is clear thatwomen’s educational standard and amount of labor activity play an important role inrelation to population policies (Salas 1984:20). In addition, further technology transferin fields such as medical services from first to third world countries should beencouraged. In some nations politic measures are taken on national level to reducethe population growth, but they may not be the best means of solving the issue as theeffectiveness of policies such as one-child policy in China is questioned. While fertilityrate in both urban and rural areas in China has successfully decreased from 6.1 and5.0 in 1949 to 2.0 and 1.4 in 1992 respectively (Wakabayashi 1996:61), the policy hasborne new issues such as illegal delivery, gender preference of male over female,mass abortion of female infants, the necessity to support four parents and in somecases even grand parents per couple, existence of“second”children who are givenno right to administrative or medical care services due to lack of registration as a523