Kenya : Reaching the Poor through the Private Sector, A Network Model for Expanding Access to Reproductive Health Services
This study, carried out in the summer of 2003, measured the effectiveness of a Kenyan program dedicated to increasing the availability of reproductive health services to the poor through training and networking of private medical providers. The Kis...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/5823943/kenya-reaching-poor-through-private-sector-network-model-expanding-access-reproductive-health-services http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13671 |
| Summary: | This study, carried out in the summer of
2003, measured the effectiveness of a Kenyan program
dedicated to increasing the availability of reproductive
health services to the poor through training and networking
of private medical providers. The Kisumu Medical and
Educational Trust (KMET) program focuses on family planning
services and encourages providers to add these services to
the normal range of consultations, commodity sales, and
clinical care they already provide. The central question
addressed in this study is whether it is possible to offer
reproductive health services through a network of private
sector, for-profit providers without exacerbating inequity
in access to these services.. The study also looked at a
pool of potential clients of KMET members to evaluate which
wealth group benefits from the subsidy given to private
providers through KMET. And finally, an analysis of actual
KMET clients was used to better understand the
program's success in providing quality reproductive
health care. |
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