SOCIAL SCIENCE
Large-scale Experimental Health Programs

The Population Council is engaged in a number of large-scale experiments. The objective of these experiments is to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of health and family planning interventions. Once experiments have demonstrated their impact, the Council collaborates with governments to redesign national health programs and to improve health services nationwide. Collaboration often involves replication projects that have somewhat less rigorous designs for assessing demographic effects, but that provide important opportunities for researching the utilization of research.

Delivering health and family planning services on motorbikes in a remote region of northern Ghana. (more photos)

Projects

• Community-based Health Planning and Services

• ExCHANGE: Expanding Community Healthcare Accessibility Network

• Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative

• The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project

• Scaling Up the Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative in Nkwanta District

• FRONTIERS project

  • Transferring Ghana's System of Evidence-based Health Program Development: Program for an Initial Exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso

Publications/Resources on this issue

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See Also

• Ghana

Offsite Links

• ExpandNet

• Ghana Health Service Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative

• Navrongo Health Research Centre

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This page updated 31 March 2008

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