Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bailey, Wilma R.
• Lee, Amy
• Wynter, Hugh H.

Titel

Distance and Continuation Rates in a Family Planning Clinic: A Case Study from Jamaica

Ist Teil von

• Social and Economic Studies, 1987-09, Vol.36 (3), p.203-217

Ort / Verlag

Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Erscheinungsjahr

1987

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The care records of all women accepting medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo Provera) between July 1981 and June 1983 at the Advanced Training in Research and Fertility Management Unit of the University of the West Indies were examined and home addresses mapped. The distances between the homes of acceptors and the Unit were measured and travel-distance bands super-imposed on the distribution map. Continuation rates using life table determination were calculated for clients residing within separate two-mile travel bands at increasing distances from the Unit. Continuation rates decreased up to eight miles but increased considerably in the peri urban and rural areas beyond eight miles of the Corporate Area. This increase was due to the better performance of the large teenage component attracted from distant areas. The decline in continuation rates suggests that the four-mile travel band would be the most effective service area for the Unit.