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- Title
- The Billings method of family planning: an assessment
- Author(s)
- Betts, Katharine
- Abstract
- The Billings/ovulation method is a periodic abstinence method of regulating births based on the client's interpretation of changing patterns in secretions of cervical mucus monitored by external self-examination. It was developed in Australia and is now widely promoted overseas. This paper outlines the method's recent history and goes on to discuss its physiological basis, its use- effectiveness as measured in a number of major trials, and some evidence concerning its general acceptability and applicability in family planning programs
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 15, no. 6 (1984), pp. 253-266
- Publication year
- 1984
- Keyword(s)
- Billings Method; Family planning
- Publisher
- The Population Council
- ISSN
- 0039-3665
- Publisher URL
- http://www.jstor.org/stable/1966070
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1984 The Population Council. Paper reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
