Evolution of population policies and programmes in Sri Lanka.
探讨斯里兰卡政府如何通过直接和间接人口政策（如计划生育、公共卫生、城市规划）来影响生育率、死亡率及人口迁移，以提升国民福利。
Population polices may be developed and implemented by government bodies to help improve population welfare and living standards. Such policies may be either responsive and indirect or influencing and direct. Indirect policies comprise those which affect educational expansion food supply town and city development and resource development. Direct policies are those on family planning programs designed to reduce fertility public health and nutrition programs to lower mortality and transportation and industrial planning to influence internal migration. The National Coordinating Council on Population (NCCP) coordinates and monitors the national population program in Sri Lanka. The Population Division of the Ministry of Health is responsible for population policy planning coordination and monitoring the national population program and acts as the secretariat to the NCCP. The implementation of the family planning service delivery program is the responsibility of the Family Health Bureau of the Ministry of Health. The National Health Council chaired by the Prime Minister is the highest policy making body on health and related subjects. The director of the Population Division of the Ministry of Health discusses how direct and indirect policies have been implemented to shape international and internal migration mortality and fertility in the country.