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Effects of IGSS' Job Aids-Assisted Balanced Counseling Algorithms on Quality of Care and Client Outcomes
The Guatemalan Institute of Social Security (IGSS) offers family planning services to its affiliates in connection with obstetric events. It does so through 12 hospitals and 25 outpatient clinics in departments throughout Guatemala. While the IGSS only contributes 4.6 percent of the national…
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Health Area: Family Planning
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Scaling up a Successful Counseling Model in Guatemala
The general objective of this project was to improve clients' ability to make an informed choice of contraceptive methods by scaling up the use of the balanced counseling strategy in public service delivery institutions in Guatemala. To reach this end, the project provided technical assistance…
Resource Type : Report
Country : Guatemala
Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Improving Compliance with Standards for Essential Obsteric Care in Bolivia
This case study series presents real applications of quality assurance (QA) methods in developing countries at various health system levels, from national to community. The series focuses on QA applications in child survival, maternal and reproductive health, and infectious diseases. Each case…
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The Impact of Quality of Care on Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Rural Bangladesh
The Department of Population and Family Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted research on the impact of service quality for contraceptive utilization with the support of the Population Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program. The project…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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Assessing the Private Sector: Using Non-Government Resources to Strengthen Public Health Goals
For many years the focus of government policy has been on the actions of the public sector in financing and providing health services. Growing recognition of the diversity, size, and scope of non-government actors in health service financing and provision has, however, led to a reassessment of…
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Price Elasticity of Demand for Reproductive Health Services at an Ecuadorian Private Voluntary Organization: Final Report
Financial sustainability is becoming a priority among family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) service providers in the developing world. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), especially, need to recover program costs, often by charging user fees for services once offered at no charge or…
Resource Type : Report
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Macro-level Operational Barriers to Family Planning Services in Ethiopia : Taxation and Importation of Contraceptives and the Role of NGOs
The family planning system in Ethiopia is hugely dependent on donors for contraceptives. Although the government has a supportive policy toward fertility reduction, the family planning system is highly entangled with macro- level operational barriers that have compromised the provision of…
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Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Using Microfinance to Improve the Quality of Reproductive Health Services
This paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on the quality of reproductive health services in Uganda. It examines a microfinancing scheme that provides business-skills training and revolving loans to small-scale private providers can increase client perceptions of quality of services and…
Resource Type : Brief
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
Indonesia Midwives Loan Fund: Can a Revolving Loan Fund be Used to Encourage Private Midwifery Practices?
This paper examines the creation of a revolving loan fund by the USAID-funded Summa Foundation to provide loans to midwives in Indonesia to expand and establish their practices. This paper presents the outcomes of the Indonesia Midwives Loan Fund, and analyzes the outcomes and specific factors…
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Support to Contraceptive Social Marketing in the Philippines, Performance and Prospects - Final Report
This report identifies and assesses areas of focus for future USAID/Philippines assistance to the social marketing of hormonal contraceptive products. It also recommend potential strategies for USAID support that will best ensure continued availability of affordable hormonal contraceptive…
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Health Area: Family Planning
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Technical Area: Pharmaceutical Partnerships and Social Marketing
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What is the Market Development Approach?
- What is the Market Development Approach (MDA) Process for Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health? Brief #1 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What is the Market System Framework and Its Role in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets? Brief #2 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What are Key Terms Used in a Market Development Approach for Health? Brief #3 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- The Meaning and Importance of Stewardship in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets. Brief #4 of 4 in a series on the MDA
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