Social work and family planning

This study describes the scope and health policies relating to male family planning. Family planning is the set of fertility regulations that guarantee equal rights for women men or couples to start limit or increase their families as set out in Law 9.263/96 referring to the procedures used for planning based on public health policy which includes the Unified Health System (SUS). The main objective was to disseminate the work of the social worker in the male family planning programme at a public hospital in João Pessoa PB which is a reference in the definitive method of contraception vasectomy. Medical records of men who had undergone this procedure were analysed. The importance of this programme as a disseminator of information was noted as well as the need for it to be expanded and restructured along with a number of actions aimed at the male public in order to break down the paradigms that permeate vasectomy.