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Fundamental elements of the quality of care: a simple framework.
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A framework for assessing quality from the client's perspective is offered, consisting of six parts (choice of methods, information given to clients, technical competence, interpersonal relations, follow-up and continuity mechanisms, and the appropriate constellation of services).Abstract:Â
This article argues for attention to a neglected dimension of family planning services--their quality. A framework for assessing quality from the client's perspective is offered, consisting of six parts (choice of methods, information given to clients, technical competence, interpersonal relations, follow-up and continuity mechanisms, and the appropriate constellation of services). The literature is reviewed regarding evidence that improvements in these various dimensions of care result in gains at the individual level; an even scarcer body of literature is reviewed for evidence of gains at the level of program efficiency and impact. A concluding section discusses how to make practical use of the framework and distinguishes three vantage points from which to view quality: the structure of the program, the service-giving process itself, and the outcome of care, particularly with respect to individual knowledge, behavior, and satisfaction with services.read more
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Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the design of a Qualitative-Quantitative Research Study, the language and Logic of Qualitative Research, and how to collect Qualitative Data: The Science and the Art.
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High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution
Margaret E Kruk,Anna D. Gage,Catherine Arsenault,Keely Jordan,Hannah H. Leslie,Sanam Roder-DeWan,Olusoji Adeyi,Pierre M. Barker,Bernadette Daelmans,Svetlana V. Doubova,Mike English,Ezequiel GarcĂa Elorrio,Frederico C. Guanais,Oye Gureje,Lisa R. Hirschhorn,Lixin Jiang,Edward Kelley,Ephrem T. Lemango,Jerker Liljestrand,Address Malata,Tanya Marchant,Malebona Precious Matsoso,John G. Meara,Manoj Mohanan,Youssoupha Ndiaye,Ole Frithjof Norheim,K. Srinath Reddy,Alexander K. Rowe,Joshua A. Salomon,Gagan Thapa,Nana A Y Twum-Danso,Muhammad Pate +31 more
TL;DR: High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution.
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Family planning: the unfinished agenda
TL;DR: In half the larger low-income and lower-middle income countries (mainly in Africa), contraceptive practice remains low and fertility, population growth, and unmet need for family planning are high, and greater investment in family planning in these countries compelling.
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The causes of unmet need for contraception and the social content of services
John Bongaarts,Judith Bruce +1 more
TL;DR: The conventional explanation for the nonuse of contraception is concluded to be inadequate and the need for expanded investment in services that not only provide contraceptives, but also attend to closely related health and social needs of prospective clients is highlighted.
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The sexuality connection in reproductive health
TL;DR: An analytic framework relates four dimensions of sexuality to reproductive health outcomes and concludes that family planning policies and programs should address a broader spectrum of sexual behaviors and meanings, consider questions of sexual enjoyment as well as risk, and confront ideologies of male entitlement that threaten women's sexual and reproductive rights and health.
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The Quality of Care: How Can It Be Assessed?
TL;DR: Assessing quality depends on whether one assesses only the performance of practitioners or also the contributions of patients and of the health care system, on how broadly health and responsibility for health are defined, and on whether the maximally effective or optimally effective care is sought.
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High prevalence of gynaecological diseases in rural indian women
TL;DR: There was an association between presence of gynaecological diseases and use of female methods of contraception, but this could explain only a small fraction of the morbidity.
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Fertility reduction and the quality of family planning services.
TL;DR: An analytical framework that links the six elements of quality with fertility is described and suggests improvements in quality of family planning services by enhancing the choice of contraceptive methods available in a country would increase the overall practice of contraception and thus would result in fertility reduction.
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The record of family planning programs.
Ronald Freedman,Bernard Berelson +1 more
TL;DR: An effort to appraise the demographic impact of public programs to provide modern means of fertility control through a comprehensive evaluation of the record and the criticisms and the historical and comparative background are reviewed.
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The demographic impact of the Family Planning--Health Services Project in Matlab Bangladesh.
TL;DR: The study shows that intensive family planning efforts can affect fertility in the absence of socioeconomic changes.