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YEAR: 2004

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family planning and sexual health organizations: management lessons for

health system reform.

AUTHORS

Ambegaokar M; Lush L

SOURCE

Health Policy and Planning. 2004;19 Suppl 1:i22-i30.

ABSTRACT

Advocates of health system reform are calling for, among other things, decentralized, autonomous managerial and

financial control, use of contracting and incentives, and a greater reliance on market mechanisms in the delivery of

health services. The family planning and sexual health (FP&SH) sector already has experience of these. In this

paper, we set forth three typical means of service provision within the FP&SH sector since the mid-1900s:

independent not-for-profit providers, vertical government programmes and social marketing programmes. In each

case, we present the context within which the service delivery mechanism evolved, the management techniques that

characterize it and the lessons learned in FP&SH that are applicable to the wider debate about improving health

sector management. We conclude that the FP&SH sector can provide both positive and negative lessons in the

areas of autonomous management, use of incentives to providers and acceptors, balancing of centralization against

decentralization, and employing private sector marketing and distribution techniques for delivering health services.

This experience has not been adequately acknowledged in the debates about how to improve the quality and quantity

of health services for the poor in developing countries. Health sector reform advocates and FP&SH advocates

should collaborate within countries and regions to apply these management lessons. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT1T 558-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning and sexual health organizations:

management lessons for health system reform.", is(are) Ambegaokar M; Lush L. The source of this article is "Health

Policy and Planning. 2004;19 Suppl 1:i22-i30.". This article was published in 2004 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 558-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 558

This article is peer-reviewed.

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