Use of Traditional Medical Practitioners to Deliver Family Planning Services in Uttar Pradesh

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10797209
AutoresIndra P Kambo, I Kambo (Indian Council of Medical Research, autor de correspondencia), R N Gupta, Azad S Kundu, Balwan Singh Dhillon, H M Saxena, Harsha Saxena
Año1994
Volumen25
Número1
Páginas32
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Family Planning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2137987
PMID8209393
OpenAlexW2008067917
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas5

This pilot study conducted in Muzaffarnagar district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, demonstrates the potential for using traditional medical practitioners in the delivery of family planning services after a brief training period. Practitioners participated continuously in the program for an intervention period of two years during which their services were accepted by the community. The impact of their involvement was reflected in increased knowledge of permanent as well as reversible contraceptive methods and in higher contraceptive use rates, especially of reversible methods adopted by women younger than 25 years (from 8 percent to 37 percent), in the intervention villages, as compared with increased knowledge and use (from 13 percent to 25 percent) of permanent methods alone in the control villages

Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Intervention (counseling · Population · Research methodology · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Uttar pradesh · Global Maternal and Child Health · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine · Nursing · Social and Economic Development in India