Session: Innovations in Improving Reproductive Health Services


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

3130.1: Monday, December 12, 2005: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Roundtable

Innovations in Improving Reproductive Health Services

Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives

Table 1

Ethiopia: Supporting health sector reform through quality improvement
Maj-Britt Dohlie, MA

Table 2

Evidence-based family planning program management: Contraceptive security and equity of family planning use
Dana Gelfeld Aronovich, MHS, Ali Karim, David O'Brien

Table 3

Making the shift from abortion to contraception in Romania: Using evidence to change policy and meet FP needs
Merce M. Gasco, MD, Gabriela Paleru, MD, Laurentiu Stan, MD

Table 4

Does Community-based Health Planning and Services increase access to family planning in rural Ghana?: A case study of Nkwanta District
J. Koku Awoonor-Williams, MD, MPH, Frank K. Nyonator, MD, MPH, Maya Vaughan-Smith, MPP, Ellie Feinglass, MPH, James Phillips, PhD

Table 5

Improving service accessibility for the least advantaged clients *
Fadia Sultana, MD, Nizam Uddin Ahmed, MD, Ferdousi Begum, MBBS, MPH, Mohammed Mahbub Alam, Farhana Ahmed, Md Imtiazul Islam

Table 6

An open-source public health intelligence infrastructure for developing country capacity building
Robert Jacoby, John Robinette, MS, Muhammad Rabi, PhD

Table 7

Traditional birth attendants (TBAs): Data on their role in improving access to emergency obstetric care (EmOC)
Eugene Twahirwa, MS, Emmanuel D'Harcourt, MD, MPH

Table 8

Improving Family Planning and Reproductive Health In Nigeria
Dominique Meekers, PhD, Joe Keating, PhD, Alfred Adewuyi, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by:

Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health

Endorsed by:

APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; International Health; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus

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