Value of Family Planning for Improving Maternal Health in Rural Afghanistan
2012
This article, published in the Afghanistan Journal of Public Health, uses a model designed to simulate the natural history of pregnancy and associated maternal mortality and morbidity contextualized to Afghanistan to assess the cost-effectiveness of family planning in the rural Maywand district of Kandahar.
Using total fertility rate, pregnancy-related complications, maternal mortality ratio, lifetime risk of maternal death, and proportionate mortality ratio as outcomes, the model finds that increasing family planning from 8% to 30-50% could reduce the total fertility rate from 6.6 to 5.1-3.9. Spreading this throughout Afghanistan could prevent 166,000-210,000 maternal deaths. These results illustrate the importance of investing in family planning to improve overall maternal health outcomes.
Value of Family Planning for Improving Maternal Health in Rural Afghanistan
Source:
Carvalho N, Goldie SJ, Salehi A. The Value of Family Planning for Improving Maternal Health in Rural Afghanistan: The Example of Kandahar. Afghanistan Journal of Public Health 2012; 1: 12-19. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258238597_The_Value_of_Family_Planning_for_Improving_Maternal_Health_in_Rural_Afghanistan_The_Example_of_Kandahar