International Family Planning Perspectives Bangladesh is one of many countries struggling to implement the expanded approach to family planning agreed to at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)1 in the context of broader health sector reforms.2 The ICPD Programme of Action mandated, among other things, the integration of family planning with broader reproductive hea...

abstract background: family planning has been defined in the framework of mothers and children plan as one of primary healthcare (phc) details. besides quantity, the quality of services, particularly in terms of ethics, such as observing individuals’ privacy, is of great importance in offering family planning services. objective: a preliminary study to gather information about the degree of med...

planning and genitourinary medicine (GUM) services are in many ways imperfect as neither deals with the broad spectrum of sexual health needs in an holistic way. Client centred care focuses on equity of access, the provision of quality care, appropriate referral and management and achieving client satisfaction. Is the solution an extension of the recent trend of traditionally separate disciplin...

planning and genitourinary medicine (GUM) services are in many ways imperfect as neither deals with the broad spectrum of sexual health needs in an holistic way. Client centred care focuses on equity of access, the provision of quality care, appropriate referral and management and achieving client satisfaction. Is the solution an extension of the recent trend of traditionally separate disciplin...

Introduction Low-income women in the United States obtain access to family planning services in large part through publicly subsidised federal, state and local programmes. Public support for publicly funded family planning care is based on the belief that these programmes reduce unintended pregnancy, promote better birth outcomes and save governments money. There is, therefore, a need to assess...

BACKGROUND Good quality of care in family planning (FP) services help individuals and couples to meet their reproductive health needs safely and effectively. Therefore, assessment and improvement of the quality of family planning services could enhance family planning services utilization. This study was thus conducted to assess the quality of family planning services in primary health centers ...

Publicly funded family planning clinics serve millions of low-income women each year, providing a range of critical preventive services and enabling women to avoid unintended pregnancies. It is important to quantify the impact and cost-effectiveness of such services, in addition to these health benefits. Using a methodology similar to prior cost-benefit analyses, we estimated the numbers of uni...