Jane T Bertrand
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 217034 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jane T Bertrand |
| PRENOMES | Jane T |
| SOBRENOME | Bertrand |
| ASSINATURA | BERTRAND J T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5482-787X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Nursing student training as a novel approach to increasing community-based access to contraception in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This study evaluated the scale-up of an innovative approach to increasing modern contraceptive use in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on multiple outcomes: fidelity to design, acceptability, sustainability, satisfaction, adoption by other organizations, and penetration. The intervention consisted of incorporating a family planning (FP) module into the training of third-year nursing students, who then counseled and delivered services du…
Declining yet persistent use of traditional contraceptive methods in low- and middle-income countries
Traditional contraceptive methods are used by 55 million women in developing countries. This study analysed over 80 national surveys to compare traditional with modern method users, by type, region, socio-demographic characteristics, strength of family planning programmes and discontinuation rates. The advance of modern methods has greatly reduced the share held by traditional methods, but the actual prevalence of their use has declined little. Y…
The scale-up and integration of contraceptive service delivery into nursing school training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), modern contraceptive prevalence is low by international standards: 29.6% as of 2020. A 2015 pilot study demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of using medical and nursing students to administer DMPA-SC (the subcutaneous injection) among other methods at the community level. The more far-reaching discovery was the potential of clinically trained students to increase access to low-cost c…
Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
Assessing the contraceptive supply environment in Kinshasa, DRC
Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) is a population-based and facility-based survey program conducted in 11 countries to track contraceptive use dynamics and the supply environment. Annual data collection provides trend data unavailable from any other source. Two-stage cluster sampling was used to select 58 enumeration areas in Kinshasa; data were collected in 2014, 2015 and 2016 from three to six service delivery points (SDP…
FPwatch
This article describes datasets for the FPwatch Project, a comprehensive facility‐based family planning survey conducted by Population Services International in five countries in Africa and Asia from 2015 to 2017. Contents cover research design and background, methodology, sample selection, data collection, an overview of FPwatch indicators, and quality assurance measures taken. These datasets from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Indi…
Barriers to modern contraceptive use in rural areas in DRC
Recent research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has shown that over a quarter of women have an unmet need for family planning and that modern contraceptive use is three times higher among urban than rural women. This study focuses on the reasons behind the choices of married men and women to use contraception or not. What are the barriers that have led to low levels of modern contraceptive use among women and men in DRC rural areas? The…
Dose-response’ relations between participation in integrated early childhood services and children's early development
The value of spatial analysis for tracking supply for family planning
While geographic information systems (GIS) are frequently used to research accessibility issues for healthcare services around the world, sophisticated spatial analysis protocols and outputs often prove inappropriate and unsustainable to support evidence-based programme strategies in resource-constrained environments. This article examines how simple, open-source and interactive GIS tools have been used to locate family planning (FP) services del…
Intimate partner violence, modern contraceptive use and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Using Mapping of Service Delivery Sites to Increase Contraceptive Availability in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The DRC’s National Program for Reproductive Health—the government office charged with coordinating and overseeing family planning—has lacked the human and financial resources to effectively carry out its role. As of 2011, at least 10 local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) were providing some type of family planning service delivery in Kinshasa; however, each tended to work in isolation. Although these groups have worked dili…
Contraceptive Method Skew and Shifts in Method Mix in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Over the 20-year period following the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, family planning has waned as a priority on the global health agenda, 1,2 although some signs of renewed interest and investment have occurred in recent years. In 2005, "universal access to reproductive health" was added to Millennium Goal 5, albeit as an afterthought. In addition, three international family planning conferences have …
Ethnicity and HIV risk behaviour, testing and knowledge in Guatemala
The Mayan indigenous population in Guatemala, while broadly socially vulnerable, does not appear to be at elevated risk for HIV based on this analysis of selected risk factors. Nonetheless, low rates of HIV knowledge and testing may be cause for concern. Programmes working in indigenous communities should focus on HIV education and reducing barriers to testing. Further research into the factors that underlie ethnic self-identity and perceived eth…
Providing healthcare to New Orleans' heart and soul
This article details how the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic (founded 1998) has evolved to sustain New Orleans' musicians in mind, body and spirit by developing a unique access point to primary care, preventative health and social services and occupational outreach. Today, the clinic engages many partners, providers and funders at the federal, state and local levels to serve the increasing demand of their more than 2,400 patients
Getting results used
This article reviews 44 operations research projects aiming to improve reproductive health services in Guatemala, conducted by the Population Council from 1988 to 2001. It documents the experience of the research programme, traces the extent to which research results are identifiable in existing programmes, and analyses factors influencing utilization. Utilization of research results occurs as a gradual process of information sharing, where resea…
Skewed Contraceptive Method Mix
Contraceptive prevalence has been central to family planning research over the past few decades, but researchers have given surprisingly little consideration to method mix, a proxy for method availability or choice. There is no ‘ideal’ method mix recognized by the international community; however, there may be reason for concern when one or two methods predominate in a given country. In this article method skew is operationally defined as a singl…
Use of Health Professionals for Obstetric Care in Northern Ghana
This study explores the role of access versus traditional beliefs in the decision to seek obstetric care from health professionals. Eighteen purposively sampled homogenous groups in Kassena‐Nankana District of northern Ghana participated in focus‐group discussions about traditional beliefs, barriers to the use of health professionals, and ways to improve obstetric care. All the groups were knowledgeable about the life‐threatening signs and sympto…
The Delayed Contraceptive Revolution in Guatemala
Guatemala has the second lowest level of contraceptive use of any country in Latin America despite an active private family planning program for over 30 years. Previous analyses identify correlates of contraceptive use but fail to address the fundamental question: Why does Guatemala differ so markedly from the rest of Spanish-speaking Latin America in the acceptance of family planning? This case study explores political and historical factors at …
The male versus female perspective on family planning
Males have often been neglected in both family planning programmes and in surveys used to design and evaluate such programmes. A 1988 study on fertility, family planning and AIDS in Kinshasa, Zaire, provides comparable data on 3140 men and 3485 women of reproductive age which served as the basis for analysing male/female differences. The study indicated a fair degree of similarity in the attitudes, beliefs, knowledge levels and practices of men a…
Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Morocco
Lisanne Brown, Mostafa Tyane, Jane Bertrand, Don Lauro, Mohamed Abou-ouakil, Lisa deMaria, Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Morocco, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 26, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1995), pp. 154-168
Community-Based Distribution of Contraceptives in Zaire
This article describes one of few well-documented community-based distribution efforts in a francophone Sub-Saharan country a project that began in 1981 in Bas Zaire a region in Republic of Zaire. Results indicate that the average number of couple-months of contraceptive protection per month provided by each distributor varied widely across projects eight sites from 204 in Miabi to 1310 in Matadi. Within each site average performance of distribut…
Techniques for Analyzing Focus Group Data
Focus groups are widely used in the field of public health as a quick, low-cost means of obtaining information from selected groups in the target population for programmatic purposes. Much has been written about techniques for conducting focus groups, but there is limited practical information on systematic analysis of the results. The current article outlines three methods of recording information from focus groups onto paper, as well as three t…
Aids-related Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Condom Use among Men and Women in Kinshasa, Zaire
This study was conducted in 1988 among a random sample of 6,625 men and women of reproductive age in all 24 administrative zones of Kinshasa, the capital city of Zaire, to determine existing levels of knowledge regarding AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), sexual behavior, knowledge and use of condoms in marital and extramarital relations; perceived risk of AIDS, and attitudes toward testing for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Awar…
Sexual behavior and condom use in 10 sites of Zaire
This research was conducted among 1000 men and 1000 women in five urban and five rural sites in Zaire to obtain information on sexual behavior, especially practices which affect the risk of HIV transmission. Mean coital frequency was 1.7 relations per week for the total population, compared to approximately 4 relations per week among the “sexually active.” One‐half of men and one‐third of women reported having changed their behavior because of AI…
Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about HIV infection and Aids among healthy factory workers and their wives, Kinshasa, Zaire
Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Morocco
Lisanne Brown, Mostafa Tyane, Jane Bertrand, Don Lauro, Mohamed Abou-ouakil, Lisa deMaria, Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Morocco, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 26, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1995), pp. 154-168
Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about HIV infection and Aids among healthy factory workers and their wives, Kinshasa, Zaire
Intimate partner violence, modern contraceptive use and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Teen pregnancy in New Orleans
Dose-response’ relations between participation in integrated early childhood services and children's early development
Use of Health Professionals for Obstetric Care in Northern Ghana
This study explores the role of access versus traditional beliefs in the decision to seek obstetric care from health professionals. Eighteen purposively sampled homogenous groups in Kassena‐Nankana District of northern Ghana participated in focus‐group discussions about traditional beliefs, barriers to the use of health professionals, and ways to improve obstetric care. All the groups were knowledgeable about the life‐threatening signs and sympto…
Ethnic Differences in Family Planning Acceptance in Rural Guatemala
Guatemalas ethnic diversity affects current and future family planning efforts. Several major linguistically distinct Indian populations constitute 1/2 the population Spanish-speaking ladinos the other 1/2. Surveys conducted among the Quicke and Kekchi Indians show that they are less knowledgeable about less favorable toward and less likely to practice family planning than rural ladinos. Moreover the gap between the 2 groups widened between 1976-…
Attitudes toward Voluntary Surgical Contraception in Four Districts of Kenya
A series of 32 focus groups were held among men and women in the catchment areas of four active voluntary surgical contraception (VSC) programs in Kenya. Women who had had tubal ligation and their husbands were uniformly favorable to this method. The majority of couples using reversible methods saw tubal ligation as a logical future choice. Participants were frank about economic motives, and many were willing to endure criticism of the older gene…
Evaluation of a Communications Program to Increase Adoption of Vasectomy in Guatemala
Jane T. Bertrand, Roberto Santiso, Stephen H. Linder, Maria Antonieta Pineda, Evaluation of a Communications Program to Increase Adoption of Vasectomy in Guatemala, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 18, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1987), pp. 361-370
Duration and correlates of post-partum abstinence in four sites in Zaire
Attitudes Toward Tubal Ligation among Acceptors, Potential Candidates, and Husbands in Zaire
Twenty-nine focus groups were conducted among men and women in five regions of Zaire to identify motivations for and obstacles to voluntary surgical contraception (VSC) for women. Both male and female participants believe that VSC is justified only for medical reasons related to difficulties with pregnancy or childbirth, and not for economic hardship. Women feel great pressure, especially from the husband's family, to produce many children, and f…
Factors Influencing the Use of Traditional versus Modern Family Planning Methods in Bas Zaire
Findings from a baseline survey conducted prior to the initiation of organized family planning efforts in one urban and one rural area of Bas Zaire reveal the widespread use of traditional methods and a surprisingly high level of knowledge of modern contraceptives. However, in the absence of a delivery system, use of the latter was extremely limited (4-5 percent of currently married women). The data reflect a deep-seated motivation for birth spac…
Family Planning Communications and Contraceptive Use in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Panama
Recent contraceptive prevalence surveys in Guatemala, El Salvador, and panama included a module on family planning communications. This module provided useful feedback on the reach of each program and facilitated comparisons between countries. While almost all women in El Salvador have been reached by family planning messages, the percentage of women reached was lower in Panama and Guatemala. In all three countries rural, less educated, and unemp…
FPwatch
This article describes datasets for the FPwatch Project, a comprehensive facility‐based family planning survey conducted by Population Services International in five countries in Africa and Asia from 2015 to 2017. Contents cover research design and background, methodology, sample selection, data collection, an overview of FPwatch indicators, and quality assurance measures taken. These datasets from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Indi…
The value of spatial analysis for tracking supply for family planning
While geographic information systems (GIS) are frequently used to research accessibility issues for healthcare services around the world, sophisticated spatial analysis protocols and outputs often prove inappropriate and unsustainable to support evidence-based programme strategies in resource-constrained environments. This article examines how simple, open-source and interactive GIS tools have been used to locate family planning (FP) services del…
Ethnicity and HIV risk behaviour, testing and knowledge in Guatemala
The Mayan indigenous population in Guatemala, while broadly socially vulnerable, does not appear to be at elevated risk for HIV based on this analysis of selected risk factors. Nonetheless, low rates of HIV knowledge and testing may be cause for concern. Programmes working in indigenous communities should focus on HIV education and reducing barriers to testing. Further research into the factors that underlie ethnic self-identity and perceived eth…
Getting results used
This article reviews 44 operations research projects aiming to improve reproductive health services in Guatemala, conducted by the Population Council from 1988 to 2001. It documents the experience of the research programme, traces the extent to which research results are identifiable in existing programmes, and analyses factors influencing utilization. Utilization of research results occurs as a gradual process of information sharing, where resea…
The use of traditional and modern methods of fertility control in Kinshasa, Zaire
The practice of post-partum abstinence has been a long-standing tradition in many societies of tropical Africa, yet recent research suggests an erosion of the taboo on post-partum sexual relations as a means of fertility control. The current study among women in the lower income groups in Kinshasa, Zaire, provides evidence of this. There is strong motivation toward child-spacing, as shown by 80 per cent of the women who reported to be currently p…
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Ethnic Differences in Family Planning Acceptance in Rural Guatemala
Guatemalas ethnic diversity affects current and future family planning efforts. Several major linguistically distinct Indian populations constitute 1/2 the population Spanish-speaking ladinos the other 1/2. Surveys conducted among the Quicke and Kekchi Indians show that they are less knowledgeable about less favorable toward and less likely to practice family planning than rural ladinos. Moreover the gap between the 2 groups widened between 1976-…
Characteristics of Successful Distributors in the Community-Based Distribution of Contraceptives in Guatemala
A study conducted by the Asociación ProBienestar de la Familia (APROFAM) of Guatemala among 177 urban and 233 rural distributors in its CBD programs indicates a number of characteristics related to distributor success (measured by volume of contraceptives sold). Among urban distributors the most important factors were number of months the distributor had worked in the program, location of the CBD post, and the fact of promoting the service by dis…
Correlates of contraceptive use among urban poor in Colombia
Fourteen variables including socioeconomic factors, demographic variables, reproductive ideals and contact with family planning programmes are tested as correlates of contraceptive use among a low-income population of Cali, Colombia. Data from surveys in 1976 and 1978 show two factors to be key determinants: number of children and contact with the local contraceptive distribution post. The availability of family planning services is discussed as …
Vasectomy in Guatemala
Over a thousand vasectomies are performed yearly by the private family planning association (APROFAM) of Guatemala. This study surveyed the experience of five hundred men interviewed 12 to 36 months after vasectomy. Overall, the experience was reported to be positive. Most wives approved of the operation; the attention received at the clinic was satisfactory; and most men considered their general health, sex drive, and marital relations to be unc…
Family Planning Communications and Contraceptive Use in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Panama
Recent contraceptive prevalence surveys in Guatemala, El Salvador, and panama included a module on family planning communications. This module provided useful feedback on the reach of each program and facilitated comparisons between countries. While almost all women in El Salvador have been reached by family planning messages, the percentage of women reached was lower in Panama and Guatemala. In all three countries rural, less educated, and unemp…
Voluntary Sterilization in Guatemala
Report of a study comparing 500 men and 419 women who had undergone voluntary sterilization in Guatemala City, in terms of their sociodemographic characteristics, attitudes and motivations regarding the operation, reactions to the quality of attention received in the clinic, postoperative complaints, and the effect of the operation on health and sex life. In both groups over 90% reported no regret about the operation. Changes in health status or …
The use of traditional and modern methods of fertility control in Kinshasa, Zaire
The practice of post-partum abstinence has been a long-standing tradition in many societies of tropical Africa, yet recent research suggests an erosion of the taboo on post-partum sexual relations as a means of fertility control. The current study among women in the lower income groups in Kinshasa, Zaire, provides evidence of this. There is strong motivation toward child-spacing, as shown by 80 per cent of the women who reported to be currently p…
Factors Influencing the Use of Traditional versus Modern Family Planning Methods in Bas Zaire
Findings from a baseline survey conducted prior to the initiation of organized family planning efforts in one urban and one rural area of Bas Zaire reveal the widespread use of traditional methods and a surprisingly high level of knowledge of modern contraceptives. However, in the absence of a delivery system, use of the latter was extremely limited (4-5 percent of currently married women). The data reflect a deep-seated motivation for birth spac…
Correlates and implications of breast-feeding practices in Bas Zaire
A sample of 1871 women having a child under 3 years old in Bas Zaire was studied to determine the correlates of breast-feeding practices and to examine the interrelationships among breast-feeding, contraceptive practices and desire for pregnancy. Socioeconomic factors that were related to the length of breast-feeding include economic status, maternal education, migration status, urban residence, pregnancy and sex of the index child. Among non-pre…
Teen pregnancy in New Orleans
Evaluation of a Communications Program to Increase Adoption of Vasectomy in Guatemala
Jane T. Bertrand, Roberto Santiso, Stephen H. Linder, Maria Antonieta Pineda, Evaluation of a Communications Program to Increase Adoption of Vasectomy in Guatemala, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 18, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1987), pp. 361-370
Attitudes toward Voluntary Surgical Contraception in Four Districts of Kenya
A series of 32 focus groups were held among men and women in the catchment areas of four active voluntary surgical contraception (VSC) programs in Kenya. Women who had had tubal ligation and their husbands were uniformly favorable to this method. The majority of couples using reversible methods saw tubal ligation as a logical future choice. Participants were frank about economic motives, and many were willing to endure criticism of the older gene…
Attitudes Toward Tubal Ligation among Acceptors, Potential Candidates, and Husbands in Zaire
Twenty-nine focus groups were conducted among men and women in five regions of Zaire to identify motivations for and obstacles to voluntary surgical contraception (VSC) for women. Both male and female participants believe that VSC is justified only for medical reasons related to difficulties with pregnancy or childbirth, and not for economic hardship. Women feel great pressure, especially from the husband's family, to produce many children, and f…
Post-partum events and fertility control in Kinshasa, Zaïre
Contraceptive prevalence surveys from sub-Saharan Africa typically show low rates of method use. The current study of one zone in Kinshasa, Zaïre, provides a more detailed view of fertility control in an urban population by examining the relative duration of breast-feeding, amenor-rhoea and sexual abstinence during the post-partum period. While motivations to prevent pregnancy remain high until the youngest child is over 24 months, the average du…
Aids-related Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Condom Use among Men and Women in Kinshasa, Zaire
This study was conducted in 1988 among a random sample of 6,625 men and women of reproductive age in all 24 administrative zones of Kinshasa, the capital city of Zaire, to determine existing levels of knowledge regarding AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), sexual behavior, knowledge and use of condoms in marital and extramarital relations; perceived risk of AIDS, and attitudes toward testing for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Awar…
Sexual behavior and condom use in 10 sites of Zaire
This research was conducted among 1000 men and 1000 women in five urban and five rural sites in Zaire to obtain information on sexual behavior, especially practices which affect the risk of HIV transmission. Mean coital frequency was 1.7 relations per week for the total population, compared to approximately 4 relations per week among the “sexually active.” One‐half of men and one‐third of women reported having changed their behavior because of AI…
Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about HIV infection and Aids among healthy factory workers and their wives, Kinshasa, Zaire
Duration and correlates of post-partum abstinence in four sites in Zaire
Techniques for Analyzing Focus Group Data
Focus groups are widely used in the field of public health as a quick, low-cost means of obtaining information from selected groups in the target population for programmatic purposes. Much has been written about techniques for conducting focus groups, but there is limited practical information on systematic analysis of the results. The current article outlines three methods of recording information from focus groups onto paper, as well as three t…
Community-Based Distribution of Contraceptives in Zaire
This article describes one of few well-documented community-based distribution efforts in a francophone Sub-Saharan country a project that began in 1981 in Bas Zaire a region in Republic of Zaire. Results indicate that the average number of couple-months of contraceptive protection per month provided by each distributor varied widely across projects eight sites from 204 in Miabi to 1310 in Matadi. Within each site average performance of distribut…
Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Morocco
Lisanne Brown, Mostafa Tyane, Jane Bertrand, Don Lauro, Mohamed Abou-ouakil, Lisa deMaria, Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Morocco, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 26, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1995), pp. 154-168
The male versus female perspective on family planning
Males have often been neglected in both family planning programmes and in surveys used to design and evaluate such programmes. A 1988 study on fertility, family planning and AIDS in Kinshasa, Zaire, provides comparable data on 3140 men and 3485 women of reproductive age which served as the basis for analysing male/female differences. The study indicated a fair degree of similarity in the attitudes, beliefs, knowledge levels and practices of men a…
The Delayed Contraceptive Revolution in Guatemala
Guatemala has the second lowest level of contraceptive use of any country in Latin America despite an active private family planning program for over 30 years. Previous analyses identify correlates of contraceptive use but fail to address the fundamental question: Why does Guatemala differ so markedly from the rest of Spanish-speaking Latin America in the acceptance of family planning? This case study explores political and historical factors at …
Use of Health Professionals for Obstetric Care in Northern Ghana
This study explores the role of access versus traditional beliefs in the decision to seek obstetric care from health professionals. Eighteen purposively sampled homogenous groups in Kassena‐Nankana District of northern Ghana participated in focus‐group discussions about traditional beliefs, barriers to the use of health professionals, and ways to improve obstetric care. All the groups were knowledgeable about the life‐threatening signs and sympto…
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