Do efforts to standardize, assess and improve the quality of health service provision to adolescents by government-run health services in low and middle income countries, lead to improvements in service-quality and service-utilization by adolescents?

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Researchers and implementers working in adolescent health, and adolescents themselves question whether government-run health services in conservative and resource-constrained settings can be made adolescent friendly. This paper aims to find out what selected low and middle income country (LMIC) governments have set out to do to improve the quality of health service provision to adolescents; whether their efforts led to measurable improvements in quality and to increased health service-utilization by adolescents. METHODS:We gathered normative guidance and reports from eight LMICs in Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Pacific. We analysed national quality standards for adolescent friendly health services, findings from the assessments of the quality of health service provision, and findings on the utilization of health services. RESULTS:Governments of LMICs have set out to improve the accessibility, acceptability, equity, appropriateness and effectiveness of health service provision to adolescents by defining standards and actions to achieve them. Their actions have led to measurable improvements in quality and to increases in health service utilisation by adolescents. CONCLUSIONS:With support, government-run health facilities in LMICs can improve the quality of health services and their utilization by adolescents.

journal_name

Reprod Health

journal_title

Reproductive health

authors

Chandra-Mouli V,Chatterjee S,Bose K

doi

10.1186/s12978-015-0111-y

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-02-06 00:00:00

pages

10

issn

1742-4755

pii

10.1186/s12978-015-0111-y

journal_volume

13

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