Avoiding Unintended Pregnancy in Peru: Does the Quality of Family Planning Services Matter?

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara S. Mensch ◽  
Mary Arends-Kuenning ◽  
Anrudh Jain ◽  
Maria Rosa Garate
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Unintended Pregnancy ◽  
Family Planning Services

Operations Research on the Female Village-Based Family Planning Worker Program of Pakistan

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-305
Author(s):  
Louisiana Lush ◽  
George P. Cernada ◽  
A. K. Ubaidur Rob ◽  
Mohammed Shafiq Arif ◽  
Minhaj Ul Haque ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Operations Research ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Training And Supervision ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Training ◽  
Broad Program

This article presents the results of a number of operations research studies (OR) of family planning services provided by a new cadre of female village-based family planning workers in Punjab Province, Pakistan. This cadre of workers, recruited nationwide, have been trained to visit women in their villages to provide information and family planning services. The studies were conducted as part of a broad program of technical assistance to the Government of Pakistan. Surveys investigated the quality of their training as well as attitudes among clients to the new program. They found that the program is developing well but there is room for improvement, particularly in counseling and training. Additional field studies are ongoing and recommendations for change have been incorporated in training and supervision. The program is expanding on a national scale.

Client-reported quality of family planning services in Mexico: are there differences by age?

Contraception ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
B. Darney ◽  
B. Saavedra-Avendano ◽  
Z. Andrade-Romo ◽  
L. Chavira-Razo ◽  
M. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Family Planning Services

scholarly journals Does service integration improve technical quality of care in low-resource settings? An evaluation of a model integrating HIV care into family planning services in Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (suppl_4) ◽  
pp. iv91-iv101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mutemwa ◽  
Susannah H Mayhew ◽  
Charlotte E Warren ◽  
Timothy Abuya ◽  
Charity Ndwiga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Service Integration ◽  
Hiv Care ◽  
Technical Quality ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Low Resource Settings ◽  
Low Resource

scholarly journals Challenges for Transforming Family Planning Rights into Practices in Nepal

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
Khadga Bahadur Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Developing Nation ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
High Level

Transforming family planning rights into practices is not an easy task especially in a developing nation like Nepal where society is patriarchal and literacy is low. Besides, coverage and quality of reproductive health services and active involvement of the community is crucial in the transformation. For properly addressing these challenges, all the sectors that provide family planning services need to act on advocacy, creating demand, reshaping service delivery, sustainability (financial and self-reliance) and high level political and financial commitments are necessary.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hprospect.v12i2.9874 Health Prospect Vol.12(2) 2013: 42-46

Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Morocco

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne Brown ◽  
Mostafa Tyane ◽  
Jane Bertrand ◽  
Don Lauro ◽  
Mohamed Abou-ouakil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Family Planning Services

FACTORS IN THE DECLINE IN INFANT MORTALITY

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 725-725
Author(s):  
J. Pakter ◽  
F. Nelson ◽  
R. J. H.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Care Family

Data from New York City show a striking decline (26.4% over 10 years) in infant mortality starting in 1965 with the advent of family planning services and improved medical care for mother and infant. This downward trend in infant mortality has been accelerated since the implementation of liberalized abortion in 1970. Other findings include a marked reduction in fertility, especially among the very young and older women, reduction in low birth weight births, out-of-wedlock births, and births to women of low socioeconomic class, all high risk situations. At a time when it is fashionable to say that we are making no progress in the quality of life, there are some things that are getting better. Whether these decreases in infant mortality are entirely due to medical care is not so clear, but at least the combination of maternity care, family planning, and abortion has been associated with an improvement of major degree.

scholarly journals Quality of family planning services in Mexico: The perspective of demand

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. e0210319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Torres-Pereda ◽  
Ileana B. Heredia-Pi ◽  
Midiam Ibáñez-Cuevas ◽  
Leticia Ávila-Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Family Planning Services

scholarly journals Assessing women's satisfaction with family planning services in Mozambique

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Chavane ◽  
Martinho Dgedge ◽  
Patricia Bailey ◽  
Osvaldo Loquiha ◽  
Marc Aerts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
National Level ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
The Impact

BackgroundThe contraceptive prevalence rate in Mozambique was estimated as 11.3% in the last Demographic and Health Survey. The impact of family planning (FP) on women's health and on the reduction of maternal mortality is well known.MethodsAcknowledging the importance of user satisfaction in the utilisation of health services, exit interviews were used to assess women's satisfaction with FP services in Mozambique. The survey, conducted in 174 health facilities, was representative at the national level, covered all provinces, and both urban and rural areas.ResultsOverall, 86% of respondents were satisfied with FP services, but issues such as insufficient supplies of oral contraceptives and the low quality of healthcare provider/client interactions were given as reasons for women's dissatisfaction.ConclusionDefined actions at the level of health service provision are needed to tackle the identified issues and ensure improved satisfaction with, and better utilisation of, FP services in Mozambique.

THE IMPACT OF DEMAND FACTORS, QUALITY OF CARE AND ACCESS TO FACILITIES ON CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN TANZANIA

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY ARENDS-KUENNING ◽  
FLORA L. KESSY
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Unmet Demand ◽  
The Impact

The low contraceptive prevalence rate and the existence of unmet demand for family planning services present a challenge for parties involved in family planning research in Tanzania. The observed situation has been explained by the demand-side variables such as socioeconomic characteristics and cultural values that maintain the demand for large families. A small, but growing body of research is examining the effect of supply-side factors such as quality of care of family planning services on the demand for contraceptives. This paper analyses the demand and supply factors determining contraceptive use in Tanzania using the Tanzania Service Availability Survey (1996) and the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (1996) data sets. The results show that access to family planning services and quality of care of services are important determinants of contraceptive use in Tanzania even after controlling for demand-side factors.

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