Mehboob Sultan|John G.F. Cleland|Mohamed M. Ali
Assessment of a New Approach to Family Planning Services in Rural Pakistan
1993 government pakistan started new approach delivery contraceptive services training literate married women provide doorstep advice supplies neighboring communities report assesses whether communitybased approach starting impact contraceptive use rural areasa clustered nationally representative survey used collect data contraceptive use access services cluster twolevel logistic regression applied assess effects service access potential confounders taken accountmarried women living within 5 km 2 communitybased workers significantly likely using modern reversible method contraception access odds ratio 174 95 confidence interval 111 271after decades failure managers family planning program designed way presenting modern contraceptives appropriate conditions rural pakistan new communitybased approach steadily expanded