Career profile of reproductive health consultants

Since the implementation of family planning in China for 30 years, the population and family planning work has formed six levels of technical service teams at the central, provincial, prefectural, county, township and village levels. Based on the community and family, this team is oriented to healthy and sub-healthy people, and carries out publicity and education, technical services, personnel training, distribution of contraceptives, information consultation and other functions, implements family planning and reproductive health promotion plans, implements long-acting contraception100000 cases and distributes condoms and contraceptives100000 copies every year, avoiding a large number of unintended pregnancies and tens of thousands of surgical complications, totaling hundreds of millions of cases.

Reproductive health consulting service personnel are distributed in the population and family planning system, maternal and child health care system, civil affairs departments, women's federations, the Communist Youth League, disabled persons' federations and other social organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations, various reproductive health hospitals, adult health care pharmacies and other institutions. There are 6,543,800 village-level consulting service personnel in the population and family planning system, including 6,543,800 consulting service personnel at or above the county level, and about 30,000 employees in the maternal and child health care system.

Generally speaking, the quality of employees is uneven. The population and family planning system focuses on family planning, contraception and birth control, and prenatal and postnatal care. And intervention in birth defects and reproductive tract infections, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, sexual psychology and sexual health care are relatively backward, and the ability to provide consulting services is relatively limited; Employees in other institutions lack systematic training in population and reproductive health consultation, and their knowledge and skills cannot meet the consultation needs.

The Eleventh Five-Year Plan period is an important period for the professionalization of the population and family planning team in China. The establishment of reproductive health consultants as a new profession and the corresponding professional qualification certificate system is of great significance for strengthening the construction of reproductive health consultants, improving the quality of our population, implementing people-oriented Scientific Outlook on Development and building a harmonious socialist society.

(2) provide reproductive health consultation and services, including family planning, infertility, prenatal and postnatal care, maternal health care, birth defects, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, sexual mental health and sexual health care;

(three) the implementation of community and family health promotion, to carry out popular science consultation related diseases;

(four) to protect the rights of population and reproductive health, implement policies such as informed choice, free service, reward and assistance, and carry out consultation on surgical complications and identification of sick and disabled children;

(five) to provide information services, collect information related to population and reproductive health, analyze and determine service items, formulate reproductive health promotion plans, and evaluate the effects of consultation, service and intervention.