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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Costs of family planning programmes in fourteen developing countries by

method of service delivery.

AUTHORS

Barberis M; Harvey PD

SOURCE

JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE. 1997 Apr;29(2):219-33.

ABSTRACT

This study of cost effectiveness of family planning programs is important in light of declining donor support. The

study examines cost per couple years of protection (CYP) for family planning programs in 14 developing countries.

Cost effectiveness is evaluated by mode of service delivery. Modes of service delivery include sterilization, clinic-

based services (CBS) excluding sterilization, community-based distribution (CBD) excluding sterilization, and

contraceptive social marketing (CSM). Costs are determined by a variety of methods: actual expenditures, budget

allocations, or estimation. Costs include donor and government support related to service delivery. Omitted costs

include, for example, nonspecific health care training, research and evaluation, data collection, and general IEC

(information, education, and communication). In combined family planning and maternal/child health services,

estimates are used to distinguish between the separate functions. CSM costs do not include revenues from inside

the CSM sale system. Findings indicate that service volume includes about 60% or more of total services provided

by organized family planning programs in 1991, excluding China. 55% of services provided in study countries were

devoted to sterilization, 31% were devoted to CBS, and 9% were devoted to CSM. In 1991, almost 57 million CYP

were provided by sterilization. The least expensive mode of service delivery was sterilization, based on data from

India and Colombia. The next most cost-effective delivery mode was contraceptive social marketing, except in

African countries where programs are new and small in scale. The most expensive service was CBS, which

includes CBD. Costs were lowest in the Middle East and highest in Africa. Except for Africa, CSM within countries

showed the lowest costs. The authors recommend that programs meet country and AIDS prevention needs.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 523-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Costs of family planning programmes in fourteen

developing countries by method of service delivery.", is(are) Barberis M; Harvey PD. The source of this article is

"JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE. 1997 Apr;29(2):219-33.". This article was published in 1997 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 523-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 5523

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