Economic Evaluation of Family Planning Interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries; A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A significant number of women in low and middle income countries (L-MICs) who need any family planning, experience a lack in access to modern effective methods. This study was conducted to review potential cost effectiveness of scaling up family planning interventions in these regions from the published literatures and assess their implication for policy and future research.

Study design

A systematic review was performed in several electronic databases i.e Medline (Pubmed), Embase, Popline, The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), EBSCOHost, and The Cochrane Library. Articles reporting full economic evaluations of strategies to improve family planning interventions in one or more L-MICs, published between 1995 until 2015 were eligible for inclusion. Data w

SUBMITTER: Zakiyah N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5167385 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature