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YEAR: 1996

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

The role of private providers in maternal and child health and family

planning services in developing countries.

AUTHORS

Berman P; Rose L

SOURCE

HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING. 1996 Jun;11(2):142-55.

ABSTRACT

Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 11 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America were analyzed in the

attempt to understand the contribution of private health care providers to population coverage with a variety of

maternal and child health and family planning services. Private providers contribute significantly to family planning

services and the treatment of children's infectious diseases in a number of the countries studied. The following

groups of countries were identified: those with a higher private provision role across many different types of services

and those where private provision was limited to only one or two types of the services studied. The analysis

identified the lack of consistent or systematic definitions of private providers across countries as well as the

absence of data on many key services in most of the DHS surveys. Given the significance of private provision of

public health goods in many countries, the authors propose much more systematic efforts to measure these

variables in the future. The appropriate changes could be incorporated in future DHS surveys without too much

difficulty. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2086-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The role of private providers in maternal and child health

and family planning services in developing countries.", is(are) Berman P; Rose L. The source of this article is

"HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING. 1996 Jun;11(2):142-55.". This article was published in 1996 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2086-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 7086

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