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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Data on costs and expenditures on family planning and reproductive health.

AUTHORS

Janowitz B

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1995. Presented at the Workshop on Data Collection Priorities for

Population and Health Information in Developing Countries, National Academy of

Sciences / National Research Council, Committee on Population, Washington,

D.C., September 14-15, 1995. [6] p.

ABSTRACT

The United Nations Population Fund has estimated that the costs of family planning and reproductive health

services will reach US $17 billion by the year 2000. As pressures to curtail costs intensify, family planning programs

will have to pay increasing attention to cost containment and revenue generation. Previous attempts to analyze

service costs have been impeded by difficulties obtaining disaggregated data for integrated programs that provide

both family planning and general health services. Family Health International has developed a methodology to

separate family planning costs from those of other maternal-child health and general health services and is testing it

in Bangladesh, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ecuador, Mexico, and the Philippines. Countries also need to be able to

predict how costs will change over time as services are expanded and to make adjustments to reduce inefficiencies.

They further need information to determine the best method-service delivery combinations given budget constraints.

These needs can be met by adding a cost component to situation analyses and through data collection methods

that ascertain how providers spend their time. In need of investigation is the extent to which information on family

planning expenditures can be obtained through Demographic and Health Surveys. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT2T 2513-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Data on costs and expenditures on family planning and

reproductive health.", is(are) Janowitz B. The source of this article is "[Unpublished] 1995. Presented at the

Workshop on Data Collection Priorities for Population and Health Information in Developing Countries, National

Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, Committee on Population, Washington, D.C., September 14-15,

1995. [6] p.". This article was published in 1995 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T

2513-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 7513

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