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Impact of franchised family planning clinics in urban poor areas in Pakistan

Impact of franchised family planning clinics in urban poor areas in Pakistan
Impact of franchised family planning clinics in urban poor areas in Pakistan
Family planning programmes are costly to implement, so it is critical to determine their effect. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to determine the impact of new family planning clinics on knowledge, contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning, amongst married women in urban poor areas of six secondary cities of Pakistan. Baseline (n=5,338) and end-line (n=5,502) population surveys were conducted in four study sites and two control sites. Client exit interviews identified the socio-demographic and geographic characteristics of clinic users. The results show that the clinics contributed to a 5% increase in overall knowledge of family planning methods, and an increase in knowledge of female sterilisation and the IUD of 15% and 7% respectively. There were distinct effects on contraceptive uptake, with an 8% increase in female sterilisation and 7% decline in condom use. Unmet need for family planning declined in two sites, while there were variable impacts on the other sites. Although the new clinics are located within urban poor communities, users of the services are not the urban poor themselves but select sub-groups of the local population
A04/16
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
Hennink, Monique
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Clements, Steve
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Hennink, Monique
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Clements, Steve
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Hennink, Monique and Clements, Steve (2004) Impact of franchised family planning clinics in urban poor areas in Pakistan (S3RI Applications and Policy Working Papers, A04/16) Southampton, UK. Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton 29pp.

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Abstract

Family planning programmes are costly to implement, so it is critical to determine their effect. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to determine the impact of new family planning clinics on knowledge, contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning, amongst married women in urban poor areas of six secondary cities of Pakistan. Baseline (n=5,338) and end-line (n=5,502) population surveys were conducted in four study sites and two control sites. Client exit interviews identified the socio-demographic and geographic characteristics of clinic users. The results show that the clinics contributed to a 5% increase in overall knowledge of family planning methods, and an increase in knowledge of female sterilisation and the IUD of 15% and 7% respectively. There were distinct effects on contraceptive uptake, with an 8% increase in female sterilisation and 7% decline in condom use. Unmet need for family planning declined in two sites, while there were variable impacts on the other sites. Although the new clinics are located within urban poor communities, users of the services are not the urban poor themselves but select sub-groups of the local population

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Published date: 22 November 2004

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Local EPrints ID: 12491
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12491
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Date deposited: 22 Nov 2004
Last modified: 20 Feb 2024 03:20

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Author: Monique Hennink
Author: Steve Clements

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