Demand Forecasting Approaches for New Contraceptive Technologies: A Landscape Review and Recommendations for Alignment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Market size estimations and demand forecasts use a variety of methodological approaches to inform decision-making around new (and lesser-used) contraceptive methods. For contraceptive products already available at scale in a market, historical procurement and consumption data can help to inform these forecasts. However, little published guidance is available on appropriate approaches to estimating contraceptive demand in the absence of historical data.

Methods

This landscape review aimed to describe the variety of approaches for modeling demand for new contraceptive methods, highlight opportunities for alignment around forecasting practices, and make recommendations to support more accurate forecasting and sound decision-making based on forecasts. We used the pu

SUBMITTER: LaCroix E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9972375 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature