SOCIAL SCIENCE
Large-scale Experimental Health Programs

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

2008
"Unmet need for family planning," GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Progress Report, Winter. Accra: Population Council. (PDF)

2007
Binka, Fred N., Ayaga A. Bawah, James F. Phillips, Abraham Hodgson, Martin Adjuik, and Bruce MacLeod. “Rapid achievement of the child survival millennium development goal: Evidence from the Navrongo experiment in northern Ghana,” Tropical Medicine and International Health 12(5): 578–593. (abstract)

2006
Bawah, Ayaga A., James F. Phillips, Martin Adjuik, Maya Vaughan-Smith, Bruce MacLeod, and Fred N. Binka. "The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: Evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 218. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

Phillips, James F. and Ayaga A. Bawah. “The evolution of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative in Ghana,” presentation at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY, 5 April. (presentation) (audio version: offsite link)

Phillips, James F., Ayaga A. Bawah, and Fred N. Binka. "Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: The Navrongo experiment in Ghana," Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84(12): 949–955. (abstract) Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 208. New York: Population Council, 2005. (abstract) (PDF)

2005
"The Navrongo experiment," Momentum, December. New York: Population Council. (full text)

2004
Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Ellie S. Feinglass, Rachel Tobey, Maya N. Vaughan-Smith, Frank K. Nyonator, and Tanya C. Jones. "Bridging the gap between evidence-based innovation and national health-sector reform in Ghana," Studies in Family Planning 35 (3): 161–177. (PDF)  Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 191. New York: Population Council (with James F. Phillips listed as additional co–author). (abstract) (PDF)

Hossain, Mian Bazle, Barkat-E-Khuda, and James F. Phillips. “The effects of outreach on perceived quality of care in two rural areas of Bangladesh,” Journal of Biosocial Science 36(5): 507–522.

2003
Feyisetan, Bamikale J., James F. Phillips, and Fred Binka. “Social interaction and contraceptive change in northern Ghana,” African Population Studies 18(2): 47–67.

Jackson, Elizabeth F., Patricia Akweongo, Evelyn Sakeah, Abraham Hodgson, Rofina Asuru, and James F. Phillips. “Inconsistent reporting of female genital cutting status in northern Ghana: Explanatory factors and analytical consequences,” Studies in Family Planning 34(3): 200–210. (PDF) Also issued as “Women’s denial of having experienced female genital cutting in northern Ghana: Explanatory factors and consequences for analysis of survey data,” Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 178. New York: Population Council, 2003. (abstract) (PDF)

Phillips, James F. “Demographic surveillance systems,” in Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll (eds.), Encyclopedia of Population, vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 204–206.*

Phillips, James F. and Mian Bazle Hossain. “The impact of household service delivery of family planning services on women’s status in Bangladesh,” International Family Planning Perspectives 29(3): 138–145.*

2002
Debpuur, Cornelius, James F. Phillips, Elizabeth F. Jackson, Alex Nazzar, Pierre Ngom, and Fred N. Binka. "The impact of the Navrongo project on contraceptive knowledge and use, reproductive preferences, and fertility," Studies in Family Planning 33(2): 141–164. (abstract) (PDF)

2001
"Appraising reproductive behavior change in Ghana," Population Council Annual Report. (full text)

Ngom, Pierre, Fred N. Binka, James F. Phillips Brian Pence, and Bruce MacLeod. "Demographic surveillance and health equity in sub-Saharan Africa." Health Policy and Planning 16(4): 377–344.*

Nyarko, Philomena, Brian Pence, and Cornelius Debpuur. "Immunization status and child survival in rural Ghana," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 147. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

1999
Bawah, Ayaga Agula, Patricia Akweongo, Ruth Simmons, and James F. Phillips. "Women's fears and men's anxieties: The impact of family planning on gender relations in northern Ghana," Studies in Family Planning 30(1): 54–66. (abstract) (PDF)

Binka, Fred N., Pierre Ngom, James F. Phillips, Kubaje Adazu, and Bruce B. MacLeod. "Assessing population dynamics in a rural African society: The Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System," Journal of Biosocial Science 31(3): 375–391.*

Phillips, James F., Wendy L. Greene, and Elizabeth F. Jackson. "Lessons from community-based distribution of family planning in Africa," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 121. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

1998
"Adolescents and ancestors face change in rural Ghana," Population Briefs 4(2): 2.

Adongo, Philip B., Fred N. Binka and James F. Phillips. "The influence of traditional religion on fertility regulation among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana," Studies in Family Planning 29(1): 23–40. (abstract) (PDF)

Mensch, Barbara S., Daniel Bagah, Wesley H. Clark, and Fred Binka. "The changing social environment for adolescents in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana: Implications for reproductive behavior," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 110. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)

"Navrongo: An experiment in bringing reproductive health to a traditional African society," Population Council Annual Report.

1997
Adongo, Philip B., James F. Phillips, Beverly Kajihara, Clara Fayorsey, Cornelius Debpuur and Fred N. Binka. "Cultural factors containing the introduction of family planning among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana," Social Science and Medicine 45(12): 1789–1804.*

"Adopting contraception in a traditional African society: Findings from northern Ghana," Population Briefs 3(1): 4.

Phillips, James F., Fred N. Binka, Martin Adjuik, Alex Nazzar, and Kubaze Frank Adazu. “The determinants of contraceptive innovation: A case-control study of family planning acceptance in a traditional African society,” Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 93. New York: Population Council. (abstract)

1995
Binka, Fred N., Alex Nazzar, and James F. Phillips. "The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project," Studies in Family Planning 26(3): 121–139.

Catley-Carlson, Margaret. From Cairo to Kayoro: Bringing Reproductive Health to a Village in Ghana. New York: Population Council.

Nazzar, Alex, Philip B. Adongo, Fred N. Binka, James F. Phillips, and Cornelius Debpuur. "Developing a culturally appropriate family planning program for the Navrongo experiment," Studies in Family Planning 26(6): 307–324. 

* Not available from the Population Council

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