Fees for family planning services.

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

User-fees for family-planning methods in urban Bangladesh

The study was carried out to review the experience with the existing user-fee (pricing) strategies and examine the socioeconomic and demographic factors associated with payment behaviour among contraceptors in urban Bangladesh for selected contraceptive methods, such as injectables, pill, and condom. Data for the study were drawn from a survey of more than 5,000 married women of reproductive ag...

Extra fees for uninsured services.

Imagine that you are celebrating a special occasion in a wonderful restaurant. The waiter brings your food and then you realize that you do not have any cutlery. When you ask for some, the waiter explains that because the cost of washing your cutlery is not included in the bill, a fork and knife will cost you extra. Later, when you ask for the bill, he explains that the cost of printing a copy ...

Introducing fees for services with professional uncertainty

A change in payment system of general practitioners from capitation to a mix of one-half capitation and one-half fee for service in Copenhagen, Denmark, resulted in a significant overall increase in diagnostic and curative services. The rate of increase differs between services. In this article, it is assumed that the rate of increase varies with doctors' professional uncertainty relative to th...

Provision of family planning services in Lesotho.

CONTEXT One of Lesotho's population goals is to achieve replacement-level fertility by 2011, but the contraceptive prevalence rate of 41% is considerably below the target of 70-75%. METHODS A situation analysis framework was used to assess family planning providers' readiness to provide services and women's perceptions of service delivery. Data were collected in 1997-1998 through surveys of 3...