ABSTRACT
In 1959, the Governor of Taiwan agreed to set up pre-pregnancy health (PPH) services at local government health stations. By 1963, 120 of the 361 local health stations had added full time PPH workers to offer family planning services through home visiting. In 1961, the Taiwan Population Studies Center was established as a research unit. Use of the mass media was a long time coming in the Taiwan family planning program. An interesting interaction of budgetary, cultural and program factors continued to restrain the Taiwan family planning program in its efforts to reach younger persons and males. The Population Council resident education advisor was requested by the Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning to collect available materials on population education in India and Pakistan where he was scheduled to consult. In early May, visiting University of Michigan Population Studies Center researchers helped pinpoint more clearly the extent of the increasing numbers of younger women in Taiwan.
