The Impact of Franchised Family Planning Clinics in Poor Urban Areas of Pakistan

Bibliographic Data

ID10797686
AuthorsMonique Hennink (0000-0002-5853-5791, University of Southampton, corresponding author), Steve Clements (University of Southampton)
Year2005
Volume36
Issue1
Pages33-44
Publication date2005-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Family Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1728-4465.2005.00039.x
PMID15828523
OpenAlexW2087606132
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited16

This study uses a quasi‐experimental design to determine the impact of new family planning clinics on knowledge, contraceptive use, and unmet need for family planning among married women in poor urban areas of six secondary cities of Pakistan. Baseline (n = 5,338) and end line (n = 5,502) population surveys were conducted during 1999–2000 and 2001–02 in four study sites and two control sites. Exit interviews with clients identified the socio demographic and geographic characteristics of clinic users. The results show that the clinics contributed to a 5 percent increase in overall knowledge of family planning methods and an increase in knowledge of female sterilization and the IUD of 15 percent and 7 percent, respectively. Distinct effects were found on contraceptive uptake, including an 8 percent increase in female sterilization and a 7 percent decline in condom use. Unmet need for family planning declined in two sites, whereas impacts on the other sites were variable. Although the new clinics are located within poor urban communities, users of the services were not the urban poor, but rather were select subgroups of the local population

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