This paper investigates the role of demand-side barriers in impeding access to the use of health services. Demand-side barriers are defined as determinants of use of health care that are not dependent on service delivery or price or direct price of those services. They include distance,…
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Initiatives Inc. provides technical assistance to government, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations in the social service sectors, primarily in the developing world. Their work is aimed at improving and increasing the managerial and technical capacity of in-country health and…
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This report discusses in detail the DFID approach to social marketing.
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OBJECTIVES To study the uptake of socially marketed insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and their impact on malaria and anaemia in pregnancy; and to report on a discount voucher system which aimed to increase coverage in pregnancy. METHODS A 12-month cross-sectional study of women in the second or…
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Objective To assess the costs and consequences of a social marketing approach to malaria control in children by means of insecticidetreated nets in two rural districts of the United Republic of Tanzania, compared with no net use. Methods Project cost data were collected prospectively from…
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Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Quality Assurance Project (QAP) seeks to improve the quality of health, population, and nutrition through state-of-the-art technical support. QAP builds on over ten years of experience using modern quality assurance methods to…
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This document is a report for The Department for International Development on behalf of JSI(UK).
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This report contains the 2001 contraceptive social marketing statistics from various organizations worldwide.
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The effect of price increases on contraceptive sales in Bangladesh.
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