Open AccessAssessment of a New Approach to Family Planning Services in Rural Pakistan
Author(s) -
Mehboob Sultan,
John G.F. Cleland,
Mohamed M. Ali
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.92.7.1168
Subject(s) - family planning , government (linguistics) , medicine , odds ratio , logistic regression , confidence interval , odds , rural area , program evaluation , fertility , developing country , cluster (spacecraft) , environmental health , demography , population , economic growth , political science , research methodology , sociology , public administration , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , computer science , programming language , economics
In 1993, the government of Pakistan started a new approach to the delivery of contraceptive services by training literate married women to provide doorstep advice and supplies in their own and neighboring communities. This report assesses whether this community-based approach is starting to have an impact on contraceptive use in rural areas.