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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10797209
AutoresIndra P Kambo, I Kambo (Indian Council of Medical Research, autor correspondente), R N Gupta, Azad S Kundu, Balwan Singh Dhillon, H M Saxena, Harsha Saxena
Ano1994
Volume25
Fascículo1
Páginas32
Data de publicação1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in Family Planning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2137987
PMID8209393
OpenAlexW2008067917
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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