cover image: Expanding equity measurements of family planning beyond wealth status and contraceptive use

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Expanding equity measurements of family planning beyond wealth status and contraceptive use

1 Oct 2021

Realizing these goals will the equity gap for key family planning relation to family planning, FP2030 ‒ a require greater focus and investment, outcomes.1 While this type of analysis global partnership to empower women to understand and address the barriers implies these programmes have been and girls through rights-based family that millions of women and girls cur- successful in expanding access [...] To communi- in thinking more creatively about the focus on the availability, accessibility, cate the evidence base to better support root causes of inequity and programme acceptability and quality of health care. [...] We recommend expanding of all inequities, nor is it necessarily co- intervention studies, and secondary how inequities are characterized and linear with other dimensions of inequity, analyses of national surveys, policy how they are measured and evaluated an insight critical to designing effective papers and grey literature relevant to to go beyond wealth as the sole driver approaches to addressin [...] Doing so would also facilitate and health surveys to identify inequities regardless of their residential status.5 identifying aspects of such services that across the dimensions of availability, Studies such as these reinforce the need are inequitable and effective strategies accessibility, acceptability and quality for more comprehensive and nuanced for monitoring progress towards reduc- of healt [...] Furthermore, The implications for this expanded at play and their contribution to ineq- equity implies that women and men, view of programming to address equity uity, for example pathways, magnitude including adolescents and young adults, may mean investing in interventions and social gradients; promising entry can make decisions about their fertility and studies outside of and in addition points
perspectives

Authors

Stratton, Sara, Hardee, Karen, Houghtaling, Erika, Malarcher, Shawn, Askew, Ian, Carrasco, Maria, Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman, de Leon, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce, Greaney, Jennie, Maggwa, Baker, McCarraher, Donna R, Peterson, Jill M, Raney, Laura

DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.279604
ISSN
0042-9686
Issued Online
2021-08-31
PMC
PMC8477424
Published in
Switzerland
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/