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Sources for Sick Child Care in Nepal

The private sector is the primary source of care in Nepal; however, care-seeking patterns vary by socioeconomic status. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2016 Nepal…

Sources for Sick Child Care in India

The private sector is the dominant source of care in India. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2015–16 India Demographic and Health Survey to examine where treatment or…

Sources for Sick Child Care in Afghanistan

The public sector is the dominant source of care in Afghanistan. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2015 Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey to examine where…

Sources for Sick Child Care in Senegal

The public sector is the dominant source of care in Senegal. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2016 Senegal Demographic and Health Survey to examine where treatment or…

Sources for Sick Child Care in Liberia

Both the public and private sectors are important sources of sick child care in Liberia. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey to…

Sources for Sick Child Care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The public and private sectors are important sources of sick child care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2013–14 DRC…

Sources for Sick Child Care in Ghana

The public sector is the primary source of care in Ghana; however, care-seeking patterns vary by socioeconomic status. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2014 Ghana…

Determinants of Quality of Family Planning Counseling among Private Health Facilities in Lagos

We use a unique dataset that includes an objective measure of the quality of family planning counseling from 927 private health facilities in Lagos State, Nigeria, to determine which variables at the facility and provider levels are most closely correlated with the quality of family planning…

Counseling Women and Couples on Family Planning: A Randomized Study in Jordan

This article evaluates the effects of involving men in family planning counseling in Jordan using a randomized experiment. We randomly assigned a sample of 1,247 married women to receive women‐only counseling, couples counseling, or no counseling. We measured the effects of each type of…

A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of a Family Planning mHealth Service on Knowledge and Use of Contraception

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mHealth, or the use of mobile phones for health, is a promising but largely untested method for increasing family planning knowledge in developing countries. This study estimates the effect of m4RH, an mHealth service in Kenya that provides family planning…