The Cairo Consensus: Population, Development and Women

Cohen, Susan A.; Richards, Cory L.

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“…A number of global partnerships such as the International conference on Population and development (ICPD) in 1994 [9], the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit in 2000 [10], and the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012 endorsed a global partnership known as Family Planning 2020 (FP2020). This partnership aims to enable 120 million more women and girls to use contraceptives by 2020 in 69 of the world’s poorest countries [11].…”

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Factors Determining Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Africa: A Systematic Review of Mixed Evidence

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BackgroundImproving use of family planning services is key to improving maternal health in Africa, and provision of quality of care in family planning services is critical to support higher levels of contraceptive uptake. The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize the available evidence on factors determining the quality of care in family planning services in Africa.MethodsQuantitative and qualitative studies undertaken in Africa, published in English, in grey and commercial literature, between 1990 and 2015 were considered. Methodological quality of included studies was assessed using standardized tools. Findings from the quantitative studies were summarized using narrative and tables. Client satisfaction was used to assess the quality of care in family planning services in the quantitative component of the review. Meta-aggregation was used to synthesize the qualitative study findings.ResultsFrom 4334 records, 11 studies (eight quantitative, three qualitative) met the review eligibility criteria. The review found that quality of care was influenced by client, provider and facility factors, and structural and process aspects of the facilities. Client’s waiting time, provider competency, provision/prescription of injectable methods, maintaining privacy and confidentiality were the most commonly identified process factors. The quality of stock inventory was the most commonly identified structural factor. The quality of care was also positively associated with privately-owned facilities. The qualitative synthesis revealed additional factors including access related factors such as ‘pre-requisites to be fulfilled by the clients and cost of services, provider workload, and providers’ behaviour.ConclusionThere is limited evidence on factors determining quality of care in family planning services in Africa that shows quality of care is influenced by multiple factors. The evidence suggests that lowering access barriers and avoiding unnecessary pre-requisites for taking contraceptive methods are important to improve the quality of care in family planning services. Strategies to improve provider behavior and competency are important. Moreover, strategies that minimize client waiting time and ensure client confidentiality should be implemented to ensure quality of care in family planning services. However, no strong evidence based conclusions and recommendations may be drawn from the evidence. Future studies are needed to identify the most important factors associated with quality of care in family planning services in a wider range of African countries.

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Factors Determining Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Africa: A Systematic Review of Mixed Evidence

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“…Thus, as a single tractable factor, tackling population growth could deliver not only beneficial but also long-term resolutions to a wide range of pressing issues. Simple solutions such as empowering women (Cohen and Richards 1994), sex education (Turner 2009), providing affordable family planning (Bongaarts andSinding 2011, Lee 2011), revisiting subsidies that promote natality (Myrskylä et al 2009), and highlighting the economic cost and necessary investment for children' future success (Hay andEvans 2006, Sonfield et al 2011) could considerably avert population growth. However, the magnitude of the task is considerable; even for developed countries, where the growth rate is just below replacement level, there could be positive net gains in their populations because of demographic momentum, i.e., a storage effect resulting from increasing life expectancy, and current incentives for encouraging natality, e.g., tax breaks and government subsidies as a solution to increase the working force to offset the economic effects of demographic ageing (Myrskylä et al 2009).…”

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Revisiting the Environmental and Socioeconomic Effects of Population Growth: a Fundamental but Fading Issue in Modern Scientific, Public, and Political Circles

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2014

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“…Many countries, including India, have increasingly shifted their focus in reproductive and child health programs towards greater male participation in the reproductive health of women, especially to improve the women's health care during pregnancy and child birth. (Cohen 1994) [2]. In the ICPD+10 progress report, UNFPA states that "a major remaining challenge is the promotion of greater male responsibility in family and reproductive decision-making" and suggests that full implementation of ICPD PoA is essential for empowerment and equality of women, and that women's reproductive health is the key to their empowerment (UNFPA, 2004) [3].…”

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Effects of Women’s Autonomy and Male Involvement on Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Service Utilization in Uttar Pradesh

Sahu¹,

Dutta²,

Kumar³

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Introduction: Effective utilization of reproductive and child health (RCH) services is important to reduce morbidity and mortality among mothers as well as children under-five. After International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1994 India has increasingly integrated male participation in women's reproductive health to improve the women's health care during pregnancy and child birth. This study examined effect of women's autonomy and male involvement on RCH services utilization in Uttar Pradesh State of India. Methodology: State level data of Uttar Pradesh from National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), India for currently married women and men aged 15 -49 years was considered. The study was restricted to couples whose youngest child was born during the three years preceding the survey (N = 2685). Pearson chi-square test was used to determine the association of background characteristics with woman's autonomy and male involvement in RCH utilization. Logistic regression was used to understand the effects of male involvement and women's autonomy, using both computed indices after controlling for socio-economic and background characteristics of women and their husbands. Subsequently, the exercise was extended using individual component of both the indices. All findings were reported for 95% CI and p < 0.05. Results: Findings show that except religion, other socio-economic and demographic variables such as age of women, place of residence, number of living children, caste/tribe, women's work status, education, wealth index, household structure and exposure to mass media, husband's age, education, and occupation were statistically significant and associated with women's autonomy and male involvement. Multivariate analysis indicated women's autonomous decision making and support from their husbands (male involvement) How to cite this paper: Sahu, D., Dutta, T., Kumar, S., Mishra, N.R., Neogi, S., Mondal, S., Dadhwal-Singh, A. and Levitt-Dayal, M. 261significantly influenced their utilization of RCH services after controlling for all socio-economic and demographic variables. Conclusion: To improve RCH service utilization and overall health status of women and children male involvement and women's autonomous decision-making should be addressed in all future RCH programs in the State.

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The Cairo Consensus: Population, Development and Women

Cited by 62 publications

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Factors Determining Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Africa: A Systematic Review of Mixed Evidence

Factors Determining Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Africa: A Systematic Review of Mixed Evidence

Revisiting the Environmental and Socioeconomic Effects of Population Growth: a Fundamental but Fading Issue in Modern Scientific, Public, and Political Circles

Effects of Women’s Autonomy and Male Involvement on Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Service Utilization in Uttar Pradesh

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