Young People's Preferences for Family Planning Service Providers in Rural Malawi: A Discrete Choice Experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Michaels Igbokwe, Christine ^a   Terris Prestholt, Fern ^a   Lagarde, Mylene ^a   Chipeta, Effie ^b   Cairns, John ^a   Mayhew, Susannah ^a   Vassall, Anna ^a   Birdthistle, Isolde ^a   Church, Kathryn ^a   Colombini, Manuela ^a   Collumbien, Martine ^a   Friend DuPreez, Natalie ^a   Howard, Natasha ^a   Mak, Joelle ^a   Mutemwa, Richard ^a   Obure, Dayo ^a   Sweeney, Sedona ^a   Watts, Charlotte ^a   Warren, Charlotte ^c   Abuya, Timothy ^c   Askew, Ian ^c   Kikuvi, Joshua ^c   Kimani, James ^c   Kivunaga, Jackline ^c   Mdawida, Brian ^c   Ndwiga, Charity ^c   Oweya, Erick ^c   Hopkins, Jonathan ^d   Oteba, Lawrence ^d   Stackpool Moore, Lucy ^d   Trossero, Ale ^d   Nhlabatsi, Zelda ^e   Simelane, Dudu ^e   Muketo, Esther ^f   Chatuluka, Mathias ^g   more..

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^d London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ^*  (United States)

^e FLAS   (United States)

^f FHOK   (United States)

^g FPAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY PLANNING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; MALAWI; MODEL; ODDS RATIO; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955598855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143287     Document Type: Article

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