FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Asia and the Near East
on General Quality of Care Improvement

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2008
"India: Quality assurance procedure monitors and improves quality of services," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 76. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Khan, M.E., Anurag Mishra, Vivek Sharma, and Leila Caleb Varkey. "Development of a quality assurance procedure for reproductive health services for district public health systems: Implementation and scale-up in the state of Gujarat," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 560 KB)

2007
Das, Rumeli, Kaushik Biswas, Pradeep Panda, M.E. Khan, and Rick Homan. "Strengthening financial sustainability through integration of voluntary counseling and testing services with other reproductive health services," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 252 KB)

2006
Foreit, James R. “Systematic screening: A strategy for determining and meeting clients’ reproductive health needs,” FRONTIERS Program Brief no. 6. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 348 KB)

2005
Das, N.P., Urvi Shah, Varsha Chitania, Pratibha Patel, M.E. Khan, Anurag Mishra, and James R. Foreit.  "Systematic screening to integrate reproductive health services in India,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 135 KB)

2004
"Bangladesh: High quality of care during outreach linked to contraceptive use," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 41, Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Bates, Lisa, Md Khairul Islam, Sidney Ruth Schuler, and Md Alauddin. "From the home to the clinic: The next chapter in Bangladesh’s family planning success story—Rural sites," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 620 KB)

"Indonesia: Educate clients to communicate their needs to providers," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 40. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Koenig, Michael A. "The impact of quality of care on contraceptive use: Evidence from longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh," FRONTIERS Final Report, Washington, DC: Population Council (PDF, 551 KB)

Nawar, Laila, Ibrahim Kharboush, Magdi A. Ibrahim, Hesham Makhlouf and Susan Adamchak. "Impact of improved client–provider interaction on women's achievement of fertility goals in Egypt," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.4 MB)

"West Bank/Gaza: Promote awareness of the benefits of women's reproductive health," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 46. Washington, DC: Population Council, 2004. (full text)  

Young Mi Kim, Fitri Putjuk, Endang Basuki, and Adrienne Kols. "Increasing client participation in family planning consultations: 'Smart patient' coaching in Indonesia," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 155 KB)

2003
Bates, Lisa, Md Khairul Islam, Sidney Ruth Schuler, and Md Alauddin. "From the home to the clinic: The next chapter in Bangladesh’s family planning success story—Rural sites," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 620 KB)

Center for Development in Primary Health Care. "Improving postpartum care among low parity mothers in Palestine," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 830 KB)

Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP).  "Creation of a unified management information system for three NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 385 KB)

Koenig, Michael A., Saifuddin Ahmed, and Mian Bazle Hossain. "The impact of quality of care on contraceptive use: Evidence from longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 542 KB)

Nawar, Laila, Dale Huntington, Ibrahim Kharboush, Nancy Ali, and Mahmoud Shaheen. "Assessment of pilot health project outcome indicators: West Bank/Gaza," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.9 MB)

RamaRao, Saumya, Marlina Lacuesta, Marilou Costello, Blesilda Pangolibay, and Heidi Jones.  “The link between quality of care and contraceptive use,” International Family Planning Perspectives 29(2): 76–83. (PDF, 240 KB)

2002
"Philippines and Senegal: Services improve quality of care but fail to increase FP continuation," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 30.  Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 143 KB)

2001
Costello, Marilou, Marlina Lacuesta, Saumya RamaRao, and Anrudh Jain.  “A client-centered approach to family planning: The Davao Project," Studies in Family Planning 32(4): 302–314. (PDF, 115 KB)

Shaheen, Mahmoud, Laila Nawar, Dale Huntington, and Sahar Hegazi. “Special studies program of the pilot health project West Bank and Gaza,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 671 KB)

2000
Abdel-Tawab, Nahla, Laila Nawar, Hala Youssef, and Dale Huntington. "Integrating issues of sexuality into Egyptian family planning counseling," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 312 KB)

"Egypt: Family planning providers should encourage clients to discuss sexual problems," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 7. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 301 KB)

1996
Foo, Gillian H.-C. "A synthesis of research findings on quality of services in the Indian Family Welfare Programme," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 134 KB)

1995
Khan, M.E., Bella C. Patel and R.B. Gupta. "Quality of family planning services from provider's perspective. Observations from a qualitative study in Sitapur District, Uttar Pradesh," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 150 KB)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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