A program for family planning based on maternal-child health services.

PIP: The Population Council set up as a reference framework for a study an organizational model postulating the number of doctors, midwives, and field workers, the type and number of Maternal/Child Health (MCH) centers needed for given units of population. An extrapolation cost of providing MCH services with family planning was about 1 billion dollars for the women in the developing world. Six projects have been developed in a number of countries. Principles of operation for the delivery of family planning from an MCH base include: 1) integration of family planning with MCH; 2) size and location of project areas; 3) the target population; 4) subdivisions of target groups; 5) replicability; 6) evaluation. Evaluation of the project should provide answers to: 1) success of the program in delivering specified services, 2) results of the program in terms of health and fertility, 3) effectiveness of the program as a family planning delivery service. Programs are proposed for Indonesia (Java), Turkey (Yozgat), the Philippines (Bohol), Egypt (Behlira Governorate), Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte), and Bangladesh.^ieng