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YEAR: 1993

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Measurement of the quality of family planning services.

AUTHORS

Veney J; Magnani R; Gorbach P

SOURCE

POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW. 1993;12(3):243-59.

ABSTRACT

The quality of health services is a subject of increasing interest to health care providers and organizations

responsible for financing and promoting health services. The importance of the client's perspective (and by

inference, the perspective of potential clients, as well) is now well established, but efforts to define and measure

quality have thus far been limited to the perspective of experts even when the experts claim to speak for the clients.

In this paper, the authors utilize family planning programs to explore issues of the quality of health services. They

propose that a better understanding of the view of quality actually held by family planning program clients will clarify

the influence of quality on the use of services, a clarity that has not been possible by looking at quality only as

defined by providers, managers, or experts. The authors review the literature on quality of services and identify the

gaps in research that must be filled if a better understanding of what quality is and how it relates to service outcomes

is to be obtained. A first step must be the research required to develop a set of measures of quality that reflects the

multi-dimensional nature of quality, includes the clients' view of services in the definition of quality, and incorporates

methodologies required to ascertain the true view of clients. Finally, they suggest that dimensions of quality

identified as important for 'clients' as a group will be more predictive of use of services than dimensions identified as

important to 'providers'. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 4553-06)

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

is(are) Veney J; Magnani R; Gorbach P. The source of this article is "POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY

REVIEW. 1993;12(3):243-59.". This article was published in 1993 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT2T 4553-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 9553

This article is peer-reviewed.

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