OBJECTIVE The World Health Organization has led the development of a Decision-Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and Providers (DMT) to improve the quality of family planning counseling. This study investigates the DMT's impact on health communication in Nicaragua. METHODS Fifty nine service providers in Nicaragua were videotaped with 426 family planning clients 3 months before and 4 mon...

BACKGROUND Despite good contraceptive coverage rates, recent studies in Iran have shown an alarmingly high incidence of unplanned pregnancy. OBJECTIVE To determine factors affecting quality of family planning services, a cross-sectional study was performed from June to August 2006 on women visiting urban Primary Health Care clinics in a provincial capital in western Iran. The primary focus of...

The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID. Over the last 30 years, the Bangladesh national family planning program has mainly concentrated its promotional efforts on encouraging women to adopt family planning. Most of the grassroots workers who are responsible for delivering family planning services are women. While the government p...

Many recent articles have examined the delivery of family planning services to low-income areas. Some have described the implementation of specific regional family planning programs."5 Others have been more provocative, stressing that the government has a social responsibility to provide low-cost birth control to low-income neighborhoods."u Still others have used a cost-effectiveness analysis t...

CONTEXT Universal screening for intimate partner violence has been recommended for health care settings. However, provider adherence to this recommendation is low, and little research has explored perspectives on relevant policies and procedures among providers in family planning centers. METHODS In 2009, a sample of 75 health care staff from a large, urban family planning organization that h...

This study aimed to evaluate the acceptability of joint learning between clinical and nonclinical members of family planning teams. A multidisciplinary workshop was facilitated by nonexpert facilitators comprising representatives from all disciplines who had received specific training. The workshop included sessions in which clinical and nonclinical staff learned separately and together. The ...

background: in recent years use of family physicians has been determined as a start point of health system reform to achieve more productive health services. in this study we aimed to assess the cost-efficiency of the implementation of this plan in fars province, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was done in 2007 in 18 provincial health centers as well as 224 rural ...

reproductive age women`s experiences about empowerment in family planning: a qualitative study     kohan s [1] , simbarm [2] *, talaghani f [3]     received: 31 aug, 2012 accepted: 02 dec, 2012       abstract   background & aims : women's empowerment is a process of the expansion in women`s ability and freedom to make strategic life choices, especially empowering them for decision making a...