Health Economics

Reproductive health programs in developing countries face formidable challenges in providing quality care with limited resources, making it essential for managers to evaluate how they can use resources in more productive ways. To make programs sustainable, managers must also become increasingly innovative in exploring new ways to operate their programs and generate revenue. 

Through its research and interventions, FHI health economists help programs fill the gap between client needs and program resources and explore ways to improve both the productivity of programs and the quality of care.

Selected Materials

Program Brief: How Much Will it Cost to Scale Up a Reproductive Health Pilot Project? (2007, PDF, 2.4 MB)

Program Brief: Make Better use of Provider Time in Public Health Clinics (2006, PDF, 2.1 MB) 

Article: The Impact of Price Changes on Demand for Family Planning and Reproductive health Services in Ecuador (2002)

Article: A Comparison of Four Approaches for Measuring Clinician Time Use (1999)

Book: Issues in the Financing of Family Planning Services in Sub-Saharan Africa (1999)

Periodical: Network: Evaluating Family Planning Costs
(1998, Volume 18, Number 2)

Manual: Methods for Costing Family Planning Services (1994)