Download or read book Health And Family Planning In Community based Distribution Projects written by Maria Wawer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book address the major issues involved in developing and evaluating community-based delivery (CBD) healthcare services administered by nonmedical workers in developing countries. Ranging from a general discussion of integrated community-based programs to the prescription of dose regimens that nonmedical personnel can use in field situations, the contributions cover such topics as nutrition intervention, antihelminthics distribution, oral rehydration therapy, and the efficacy of existing programs designed to train those who administer these services.
Download or read book Lessons from Community based Distribution of Family Planning in Africa written by James F. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Clinic Walls written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bringing Family Planning to the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training community based distribution agents in family planning written by Country Women Association of Nigeria and published by . This book was released on 1995* with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the HHS Family Planning Program written by Adrienne Stith Butler and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Action for Health Family Planning written by Community Action Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where There Are No Landlines written by Rebecca Braun and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to family planning has powerful health, social and economic benefits for families and communities. Family planning use protects the health of women and their children by spacing births, preventing unwanted or high-risk pregnancies, reducing the need for abortions and helping to fight HIV/AIDS. Further, family planning use supports women's rights and opportunities for education, employment, and full participation in society, and protects the environment by stabilizing population growth. In high fertility societies, slowing rapid population growth through voluntary means greatly facilitates economic and social development. While significant progress has been made in the provision and uptake of family planning, an estimated 222 million women around the globe who want to avoid pregnancy are not using an effective, modern method of contraception. Community based family planning (CBFP) programs can successfully reach remote, resource-constrained populations with high unmet need for family planning. The most common approach to CBFP is the community based distribution of contraceptives, in which community health workers (CHWs) provide family planning education and counseling, contraceptive methods, and referrals for clinic-based services. The past decade has seen worldwide rapid growth in the delivery of health services via mobile communication devices, collectively known as mHealth. With the increased availability, adaptability and capability of mobile phones come new prospects for improving the quality of and access to health care. Increasingly, these new technologies are being developed, tested, and deployed with CHWs in developing countries. mHealth tools could enhance community based approaches to family planning, yet this potential is only beginning to be explored. Accordingly, FHI 360, the Tanzania National Institute for Medical Research, Pathfinder International, and D-Tree International collaborated on the development of a mobile phone job aid for family planning service delivery by CHWs in Tanzania. The introduction of this mobile job aid presents an exciting, innovative opportunity to increase knowledge about, access to and use of family planning information and services. This dissertation aims to provide data that can improve the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of mHealth projects targeted for CHWs, and can inform program and policy decisions to implement mHealth technologies into future family planning efforts, in Tanzania and beyond.
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 2 written by Robert Black and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.
Download or read book Community Action for Health Family Planning written by United States Economic Opportunity Office and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drawdown written by Paul Hawken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.
Download or read book Family Planning Success in Two Cities in Zaire written by Jane T. Bertrand and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of a Community Based Distribution CBD Model for Increasing Demand and Utilization of Family Planning Services in 49 Districts of Pakistan written by Syed Khurram Azmat and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of the Marie Stopes Society's (MSS') Community Based Distribution (CBD) project that provided Family Planning (FP) and Reproductive Health (RH) information and services to the doorstep of the clients is illustrated in this analytical report. Baseline registration of Married Women of Reproductive Age (MWRA (15-49 years of age) was carried out during August 2008-Febuary 2009 in 49 project districts before the inception of the project. The Services were started in March 2009. Eighteen months into project implementation, the End-Line survey was conducted in 40 project districts (during August-September 2010). Over the course of the project approximately half a million MWRA from a catchment population of over 3 million were provided FP/RH information and services. This analysis includes baseline survey results and comparison of these with end of the project survey results; and trend changes in contraceptive use and behavior for a cohort of half a million MWRA. The project increased CPR from 38% at baseline to 51% at endline in 18 months. The results show that the contraceptive prevalence rates increased from 38% at baseline to 51% at the end of project, with modern methods accounting for 41% increase and representing a 52% increase over baseline. The annual change in CPR brought about by the CBD Project intervention at 13% in 18 months is almost 10 times higher than the annual change in national CPR between 2000 and 2007. Substantial increases were seen in all modern methods by 67% to 200% except female sterilization. While CPR rose, the rate of currently pregnant women fell from 11% to 7% - or by 36% over baseline - representing 20,000 fewer pregnancies among half a million women reached by the project. If CBD were to be implemented all over Pakistan, with a similar extrapolation of the project findings points towards a likely increase in national CPR to 45% with a reduction of 2 million (40%) pregnancies nationwide. True to its roots in the Willows Foundation Model of community based information and distribution, MSS CBD workers were the source of provision of current contraception method for nearly 2 in 5 (39%) users, followed by a friend or relative and a government facility (13%). It is interesting to note that in comparison to the PDHS 2006-7 where 52% of contraception commodities were self-procured (usually from a store or chemist directly by clients), the CBD had replaced self-procurement as the main source of family planning. The project may have implications and lessons for the government's very large Lady Health Worker program in aspects of training and outreach. Women (and to some extent their spouses) consider family planning a necessary service. This project strongly demonstrates that quality services, delivered to women directly, can significantly increase CPR and that women (and to some extent their spouses) consider family planning a necessary service. However, research is required to further elaborate the effectiveness or not, of a number of aspects of the intervention. One is the involvement of men: a small proportion amongst non-users is men-centric refusal to use family planning. Research must elaborate if this is relevant and if so how to overcome it. Further research should explore how this model can be replicated and scaled up by other NGOs or civil society groups rather than the public sector. Operations research would be required to ascertain if the model can be adopted within government health structures (such as LHWs, CMWs and fixed facilities) and if so what would be the modalities. Exploring/ascertaining the potential impact/role of incentives (demand and supply side) in reaching nonusers, provision of transport to clients to reach family planning centers and performance based incentives for the project teams is required.
Download or read book Community Action for Family Planning written by Margaret Wolfson and published by Paris, France : Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre. This book was released on 1987 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Third World Family Planning Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Value of Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries written by Rodolfo A. Bulatao and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family planning programs have been highly successful over the past 30 years in providing women in developing countries with desired access to contraceptive services and helping to reduce fertility rates. Notwithstanding this success, there is still an urgent need for these programs. The world's population is increasing, with annual population growth still approximately 80 million people. Nearly all of this growth is occurring in developing nations, where fertility rates remain relatively high. This high fertility runs counter to the preferences expressed by millions of women, who actually want to have smaller families. Family planning programs are also desirable because they are associated with a range of other benefits, most notably improvements in women's and children's health. Host countries provide about 60 to 75 percent of funding for family planning. However, funding and technical assistance from donor nations, especially the United States, have been crucial to the past success of family planning programs and are equally important for strengthening and expanding program efforts to meet future challenges.
Download or read book Family Planning in Primary Care Centers written by United States. Health Services Administration. Bureau of Community Health Services and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
