ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with why the applied research carried out in the Taiwan family planning program facilitated the planned program of social change – both in the productive integration of research findings into community health education action programs and in the dissemination of these ideas to other Asian countries. It discusses the work of the Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning and its predecessors, the Committee on Family Planning and Taiwan Population Studies Center of the Taiwan Provincial Health Department. The Research and Evaluation Unit was located in the Committee on Family Planning of the Taiwan Provincial Health Department, which had responsibility for promoting the family planning program in Taiwan Province. It evolved in 1969 from its predecessor unit, the former Taiwan Population Studies Center, which was started in 1961. It is presently the Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning. The Taiwan program was of special interest to the international community for more than a decade.
