TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of the quality of family planning services on contraceptive use in Peru
AU - Mensch, Barbara
AU - Arends-Kuenning, Mary
AU - Jain, Anrudh
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Through linkage of a Demographic and Health Survey to a situation analysis, this article explores whether current contraceptive use in Peru is affected by the service environment in which a woman resides. The investigation focuses explicitly on the impact of the quality of family planning services and finds that, net of personal and household characteristics, a significant, albeit small, effect exists for one specification of quality in the total sample and for the other specification a nearly significant (p=.053) effect exists. The analysis reveals that contraceptive prevalence would be 16 to 23 percent greater if all women lived in a cluster with the highest quality of care compared with the lowest. Methodological problems that arise in measuring quality of care at the cluster level and in linking quality to individual contraceptive use are also addressed.
AB - Through linkage of a Demographic and Health Survey to a situation analysis, this article explores whether current contraceptive use in Peru is affected by the service environment in which a woman resides. The investigation focuses explicitly on the impact of the quality of family planning services and finds that, net of personal and household characteristics, a significant, albeit small, effect exists for one specification of quality in the total sample and for the other specification a nearly significant (p=.053) effect exists. The analysis reveals that contraceptive prevalence would be 16 to 23 percent greater if all women lived in a cluster with the highest quality of care compared with the lowest. Methodological problems that arise in measuring quality of care at the cluster level and in linking quality to individual contraceptive use are also addressed.
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U2 - 10.2307/2138134
DO - 10.2307/2138134
M3 - Article
C2 - 8714304
AN - SCOPUS:0030088579
SN - 0039-3665
VL - 27
SP - 59
EP - 75
JO - Studies in family planning
JF - Studies in family planning
IS - 2
ER -