Vouchers: A Hot Ticket for Reaching the Poor and Other Special Groups With Voluntary Family Planning Services

Vouchers can be a highly effective tool to increase access to and use of family planning and reproductive health services, especially for special populations including the poor, youth, and postpartum women. Voucher programs need to include social and behavior change communication with clients and qu...

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Autores principales: Menotti, Elaine P, Farrell, Marguerite
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5042695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27669707
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00084
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spelling pubmed-50426952016-10-06 Vouchers: A Hot Ticket for Reaching the Poor and Other Special Groups With Voluntary Family Planning Services Menotti, Elaine P Farrell, Marguerite Glob Health Sci Pract Commentary Vouchers can be a highly effective tool to increase access to and use of family planning and reproductive health services, especially for special populations including the poor, youth, and postpartum women. Voucher programs need to include social and behavior change communication with clients and quality assurance for providers, whether in the private or public sector. In the longer term, voucher programs can strengthen health systems capacity and provide a pathway to strategic purchasing such as insurance or contracting. Global Health: Science and Practice 2016-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5042695/ /pubmed/27669707 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00084 Text en © Menotti and Farrell. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00084.
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