Showing posts with label family planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family planning. Show all posts

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Concept and Theory of electronic birth control device.

: concept

Rhythm method of birth control has been practiced and promoted by Catholic church for many years.The principal is that a female is able to get pregnant for only a few days a month.These days are limited to only 3 to 5 days a month.That is the period woman is ovulating.Catholic church teaching helps one to figure out the ovulation period by counting the days from a mensuration cycle.

Normally woman is fertile ( ovulating ten days before mensuration) so it depends on charting the menstrual cycle and predicting fro it the most fertile period and then regulating sex in that period for getting pregnant or not.

Why it is needed:

Currently most common method of female birth control is Pill( estrogen).This is a daily hormone dose to have higher level of hormone which fools the female body to think it is already pregnant and as such protect it from going through another pregnancy.Other methods are slow release of hormones by an implant and cervical ring.Ring has to inserted by doctor or a Practitioner which is not very practical and expensive in the west.The chemical methods( hormones) create problems for many women and leave them bloated and dis comfortable.None of these methods help women know there fertile time for the ones who want to have children.There is a need of non chemical method of detecting fertile period of women for birth or avoidance of it.

Biology of it.

If a female takes daily basal temperature and it is tracked and charted .this temperature goes up by .5 degrees during the period a woman is ovulating.By choosing to or not desired results in pregnancy can be had.

Proposal.

To build a Digital memory thermometer with visual and sound alarm .All would be required is for female to check daily temperature and when the temperature is .5 degrees higher alight will go on and a beep will be heard .This will be a signal that female is ovulating .it will give the choice of birth control in the hands of patient. A chart can be transferred to a smart phone for further analysis if needed.Specialist could be developed to analyse this data or this data could be sent electronically for analysis.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Amartya Sen writes about primary education in Bengal

India is one of the few countries in the world in which private tuition is thought to be necessary even at the earliest stages of primary education. Reliance on private tuition for very young children is unknown not only in Europe and America, but also in many developing countries. I had difficulty explaining to students at Peking University in Beijing what I was talking about in referring to private tuition for the youngest primary school students: the phenomenon appeared mysterious and incomprehensible to them.

He further writes that as most Indian parents feel that their children need private tutoring(tuition) after school ,it masks the true education standard of the schools in India.It creates two classes of students one's who can afford private tutors and the rest.

It is doubly bad for the nation as most needed resources are used for basic education .It further alienates the first generation of literacy candidates.These are the families who have not gotten the benefit of formal education for cultural and economic reasons.

MY HATS OFF TO AMARATYA SEN FOR KEEPING FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT IN BENGAL AND HELPING US UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEX PROBLEMS RELATED TO LEARNING ALL AROUND.

Addition of mid day lunch has also helped in attendence at school.It has freed the burden of parents to feed.It helps nation even more when girls get education and they marry at later age when their bodies and minds are fully developed . An educated woman is assett to society.She can raise a smart and capable future children and can help to increase the income of the family.It has been observed that higher educated women are one of the ways to controll population and bring prosperity in any socety.

For Free and independent India it is even more important that a stable population be achieved without any excessive intrusion onto the norms of society.Education of women has this effect in all the societies.A woman who has her first child in twenties and can read and write has a smaller and happier family life.