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Tongan family planning practice : an idiographic study / Pope, Stephanie Lee.

By:

Pope, Stephanie Lee [author.]

Contributor(s):

ʻAtenisi Institute

Material type: Text

TextNuku'alofa, Tonga : 'Atenisi Institute, 1997Description: vii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 30 cmSubject(s):

Genre/Form:

Academic theses.

DDC classification:

19 613.9/4

Dissertation note: M.A. ʻAtenisi Institute 1998 Summary: "The original motivation for this study was an interest in exploring population dynamics in the South Pacific between those islands with a strong Protestant majority, such as the Kingdom of Tonga, and territories such as New Caledonia and French Polynesia with Roman Catholic majorities or significant minorities. The hypothesis was that - as in Europe - the Protestant nations would be superior in both their approach to, and performance of, population related policies, education and services. The intention was to identify the performance of Tongan services against other South Pacific islands and territories. Local and international service indicators and principles of human rights for reproductive health would be used as a measure of performance. The principles of human rights would be specifically used to analyze: 1) censorship laws and behaviours; 2) concepts of health which shape government ideology; 3) design and delivery of reproductive health care; and 4) access to information about contraception. However, in attempting to discover relationships between religious culture and population policy, it became clear a deficit in data existed in the region. It was not possible to progress without conducting a systematic study of population and contraceptive practices in each of the South Pacific's nations and territories. What is initially presented here, then, is an idiographic study of population dynamics in the Kingdom of Tonga"--Page 1.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Theses Collection	613.94 POP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		FEAH24110112

"Approval of this dissertation as partial fulfillment of requirements for the Masters of Arts degree in Sociology"--Page ii.

M.A. ʻAtenisi Institute 1998

Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-76).

"The original motivation for this study was an interest in exploring population dynamics in the South Pacific between those islands with a strong Protestant majority, such as the Kingdom of Tonga, and territories such as New Caledonia and French Polynesia with Roman Catholic majorities or significant minorities. The hypothesis was that - as in Europe - the Protestant nations would be superior in both their approach to, and performance of, population related policies, education and services. The intention was to identify the performance of Tongan services against other South Pacific islands and territories. Local and international service indicators and principles of human rights for reproductive health would be used as a measure of performance. The principles of human rights would be specifically used to analyze: 1) censorship laws and behaviours; 2) concepts of health which shape government ideology; 3) design and delivery of reproductive health care; and 4) access to information about contraception. However, in attempting to discover relationships between religious culture and population policy, it became clear a deficit in data existed in the region. It was not possible to progress without conducting a systematic study of population and contraceptive practices in each of the South Pacific's nations and territories. What is initially presented here, then, is an idiographic study of population dynamics in the Kingdom of Tonga"--Page 1.