Population Change and Public Health Discussion Questions for Lecture 12
1. Discuss the impact of infertility on overall fertility in a population. What are the
implications for family planning programs?
2. Discuss the different preventable causes of infertility in Sub-Saharan Setting.
3. Discuss different possible sources of data to investigate infertility in a
population. What are the pros and cons of each of the source mentioned?
4. Define and differentiate between fecundity, fertility and fecundability. Discuss
how a fecund woman can be infertile with the help of some examples.
5. Discuss different programmatic approaches that can be used to tackle the
problem of infertility in sub-Saharan setting.