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N Chayovan, A I Hermalin, J Knodel.
Abstract
There are a variety of ways to conceptualize and measure accessibility to contraceptive services and supplies. Using detailed data for rural Thailand, a multiplicity of reasonable measures are developed that reflect time and/or distance to various government program outlets. Many of these are only moderately correlated with one another, and to an important extent, different measures show different associations with levels of contraceptive prevalence. Clearly there is a general need in this area of investigation to pay more attention to the measurement of accessibility as a community characteristic and to consider the sensitivity of results to alternate measures.Keywords: Asia; Attitude; Contraception; Contraceptive Distribution; Contraceptive Prevalence; Contraceptive Prevalence Index; Contraceptive Usage; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Distance; Distributional Activities; Equipment And Supplies; Estimation Technics; Evaluation; Evaluation Indexes; Evaluation Research; Family Planning; Family Planning Personnel; Family Planning Program Evaluation; Family Planning Programs; Fees; Geographic Factors; Government Sponsored Programs; Health Facilities; Health Personnel; Health Services Evaluation; Locale; Measurement; Oral Contraceptives; Organization And Administration; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Prevalence; Program Accessibility; Program Activities; Program Evaluation; Programs; Qualitative Evaluation; Quantitative Evaluation; Research Methodology; Research Report; Residence Characteristics; Rural Population; Southeastern Asia; Southern Asia; Spatial Distribution; Thailand; Time Factors; Transportation
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Year: 1984 PMID： 6495360
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Stud Fam Plann ISSN： 0039-3665