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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Defining quality of care and adherence to reproductive rights in family

planning programmes.

AUTHORS

Hardon A

SOURCE

In: Monitoring family planning and reproductive rights: a manual for

empowerment, [by] Anita Hardon, Ann Mutua, Sandra Kabir, Elly Engelkes.

London, England, Zed Books, 1997. :7-22.

ABSTRACT

This book chapter defines quality of health care in family planning programs and identifies measures for assessment

of quality of care. A lesson learned from the 1990s and emphasized by A. K. Jain is that increased contraceptive

prevalence is dependent upon quality of care. Women's health advocates have pressured for improvements in

reproductive health services and a departure from target oriented programs that superimpose societal responsibility

at the expense of individual well-being and rights. The Population Council recommends the Judith Bruce framework

for measuring quality of care by the following: choice of methods, information available to clients, technical

competence of staff, interpersonal relations between client and staff, follow-up mechanisms, and appropriate

collection of services. Jain has noted the deficit in the framework as the lack of standards. These standards would

include the need for a free and informed choice of methods, balanced and objective information on contraceptives,

avoidance of incentives and disincentives, and a health care infrastructure which enables fertility regulating methods

to be used safely. This manual relies on the Situation Analysis tools of the Population Council to measure the four

main indicators of quality of care. There is no international consensus on the most valuable, reliable, or feasible

measures of quality of care. The most consensus oriented measures were developed by the Carolina Population

Center's Evaluation Project. The methodology in this manual aims to assess quality of care in all family planning

outlets at the local level including the nongovernmental services. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 538-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Defining quality of care and adherence to reproductive

rights in family planning programmes.", is(are) Hardon A. The source of this article is "In: Monitoring family planning

and reproductive rights: a manual for empowerment, [by] Anita Hardon, Ann Mutua, Sandra Kabir, Elly Engelkes.

London, England, Zed Books, 1997. :7-22.". This article was published in 1997 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 538-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 5538

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