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Community Outreach: Lessons Learned In How to Improve Outreach
The Private Sector Project for Women's Health (PSP) in Jordan is implementing a comprehensive outreach strategy designed to specifically address the most difficult programmatic challenges in family planning: contacting and changing attitudes among women with the highest unmet need. PSP partnered…
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Project: SHOPS
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Technical Area: Social and Behavior Change Communication
Community Outreach: Opening Doors to Increase Family Planning Use
Although Jordan enjoys favorable population and family health conditions, certain challenges persist in trying to improve the overall health of Jordanian women. Since 2002, the contraceptive use - particularly of modern methods - has stalled; approximately 42% of married women of reproductive…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Social and Behavior Change Communication
The Vital Role of the Private Sector in Reproductive Health
Governments in developing countries are challenged to meet the health needs of their populations because of financial constraints, limited human resources, and weak health infrastructure. And while universal access to reproductive health care—including family planning, maternal health care, and…
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Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Champions of Social and Economic Dividends: The Private Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries struggle to keep pace with the mounting health challenges caused by epidemics and population pressures. Government health budgets, even when augmented by decades of foreign assistance, have not produced optimal spending on patients. With the escalating demands…
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Private Sector Role in Health Supply Chains
Strong supply chains are essential to effective health care delivery in all sectors – public, faithbased, employer-provided and private. In OECD countries, supply chains rely heavily on the private sector for supply, distribution and provision of key auxiliary services even when the health…
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Project: SHOPS
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Technical Area: Provider Access to Finance, Public-Private Engagement
Best Practices in Training Private Providers
Training of health care providers is one of the most common interventions used in development strategies to improve the quality of reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services in developing countries. Decades of experience have produced an abundance of information, guidelines, and…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Abt Associates: Leaders in Health Service Delivery
Abt Associates brings a wealth of practical experience and proven innovative models to strengthen the delivery of health services in both the public and private sectors to improve people's health. Our work in service delivery implementation focuses on applying evidence-based practices, improving…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality, Public-Private Engagement
Elements of Success in Family Planning Programming
Prepared by Catherine Richey and Ruwaida Salem, this issue of Population Reports offers an overview of the core factors contributing to the success of family planning programs. Family planning professionals around the world helped to identify these 10 crucial program elements. The report…
Resource Type : Report
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Expanding Access to Contraception: IUD Fees and Subsidies in Egypt
One way for developing countries to afford the costs of family planning is to reduce the number of women with high ability to pay from obtaining subsidized (public) services. Public sector resources can then be directed to women with the greatest financial need. Such targeting is an important…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Expanding Access to Contraception: How Ability to Pay Affects Use and Source of IUDs
Greater use of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) of contraception – intrauterine devices (IUD), implants, and sterilization – has the potential to increase continuation rates and reduce unintended pregnancies. In the past few years, efforts to revitalize IUD use have intensified. IUDs…
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Global
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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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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