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KMID : 0371019870200010165
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1987 Volume.20 No. 1 p.165 ~ p.203
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An Intervention Study on Integration of Family Planning and Maternal/Infant Care Services in Rural Korea
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방숙/Bang S
한성현/이정자/안문영/이인숙/김은실/김종호/Han SH/Lee CJ/Ahn MY/Lee IS/Kim ES/Kim CH
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Abstract
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This project was a service-cum-research effort with a quasi-experimental study design to examine the health benefits of an integrated Family Planning (FP)/Maternal & Child health (MCH) Service approach that provides crucial factors missing in the present on-going programs.
The specific objectives were:
1) To test the effectiveness of trained nurse/midwives (MW) assigned as change agents in the Health Sub-Center (HSC) to bring about the changes in the eight FP/MCH indicators, namely; (i) FP/ MCH contacts between field workers and their clients (ii) the use of effective FP methods, (iii) the inter-birth interval and/or open interval, (iv) prenatal care by medically qualified personnel, (v) medically supervised deliveries, (vi) the rate of induced abortion, (vii) maternal and infant morbidity, and (viii) preinatal & infant mortality.
2) To measure the integrative linkage (contacts) between MW & HSC workers and between HSC and clients.
3) To examine the organizational or administrative factors influencing integrative linkage between health workers.
Study design
The above objectives called for quasi-experimental design setting up a study and control area with
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