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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

The quality and availability of family planning services and contraceptive

use in Tanzania.

AUTHORS

Beegle K

SOURCE

Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1995. xi, 52 p. LSMS Working Paper No. 114

ABSTRACT

Between October 1991 and March 1992, the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey was conducted in all 20

regions of Tanzania, except Zanzibar. It collected data on 8246 women aged 15-49 who were linked to at least one

type of health facility. An economist applied these data and data on health facilities and pharmacies and their

characteristics to a utility model to examine the relationship between the quality of and access to family planning

services and contraceptive use. Female education was consistently and significantly associated with current and

ever use of a modern contraceptive method, especially in the 35-49 year old age group, and with fertility. Women did

not respond to availability of a good contraceptive mix but to specific methods. Availability of oral contraceptives

(OCs) and contraceptive injections were the characteristics of health facilities most frequently linked to use of

contraceptives. 93% of public hospitals and 83% of public dispensaries offered OCs, while only 16% and 36%,

respectively, offered contraceptive injections. Private facilities were significantly less likely to offer any contraceptive

method, including OCs and contraceptive injections. Even though public facilities provided family planning

methods at no cost, ever married women, urban women, and women with more schooling who lived closest to these

facilities were less likely to use contraceptives than those living closest to private facilities. The type of facility that

was nearest to women did not affect contraceptive use. The only characteristic of pharmacies associated with

higher contraceptive use was short distance. (Private pharmacies are new to Tanzania.) Availability and quality of

health and family planning services, except electricity, were not related to lower fertility (children ever born and

probability of a birth in the last 5 years). Long distance and government facilities were linked to more than one birth

in the last 5 years. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 3043-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The quality and availability of family planning services and

contraceptive use in Tanzania.", is(are) Beegle K. The source of this article is "Washington, D.C., World Bank,

1995. xi, 52 p. LSMS Working Paper No. 114". This article was published in 1995 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 3043-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 8043

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