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Yoonjoung Choi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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monitoring progress in equality for the sustainable development goals a case study of Meeting Demand for family planning
Global health science and practice, 2018Co-Authors: Yoonjoung Choi, Madeleine Short FabicAbstract:Objectives Equality is a central component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We took one SDG indicator and benchmark-percent of family planning Demand met with modern contraceptives, with a benchmark of at least 75% in all countries-as a case study to illuminate recommendations for monitoring equality. Specifically, we assessed levels, patterns, and trends in disparity by key background characteristics and identified disparity measures that are programmatically relevant and easy to interpret. Methods Data were from the Demographic and Health Surveys in 55 countries that have conducted at least 2 surveys since 1990. We calculated absolute difference among subgroups, disaggregated by age, education, household wealth quintile, urban/rural residence, subnational region/administrative unit, and marital status. Our unit of analysis was survey, and we conducted largely descriptive analyses. To understand trends in disparity, we used a fixed-effect linear regression model to estimate an annual rate of change in absolute differences. Results A significant level of disparity existed across various background characteristics, ranging from a median difference of 5 percentage points by marital status to 32 percentage points by administrative unit. On average across the study countries, national level of met Demand has increased over time while disparity has declined in most disaggregates including by education, wealth, residence, and age. We found statistically significant positive correlations among 4 disparity measures-education, wealth, residence, and administrative unit. Disparities by wealth quintile were easiest to interpret over time and across countries. Conclusions At the global level, we recommend monitoring disparity in met Demand by wealth quintile, which is strongly correlated with disparity by education, residence, and region and comparable across countries and over time. For monitoring by individual countries and for programmatic purposes, we further recommend monitoring disparity by first-level administrative unit, which can provide direct programmatic relevance.
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the demographic impact and development benefits of Meeting Demand for family planning with modern contraceptive methods
Global Health Action, 2018Co-Authors: Daniel Goodkind, Yoonjoung Choi, Lisa Lollock, Thomas Mcdevitt, Loraine WestAbstract:ABSTRACTBackground: Meeting Demand for family planning can facilitate progress towards all major themes of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. Many policymakers have embraced a benchmark goal that at least 75% of the Demand for family planning in all countries be satisfied with modern contraceptive methods by the year 2030.Objective: This study examines the demographic impact (and development implications) of achieving the 75% benchmark in 13 developing countries that are expected to be the furthest from achieving that benchmark.Methods: Estimation of the demographic impact of achieving the 75% benchmark requires three steps in each country: 1) translate contraceptive prevalence assumptions (with and without intervention) into future fertility levels based on biometric models, 2) incorporate each pair of fertility assumptions into separate population projections, and 3) compare the demographic differences between the two population p...
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Meeting Demand for family planning within a generation prospects and implications at country level
Global Health Action, 2015Co-Authors: Yoonjoung Choi, Madeleine Short Fabic, Sennen Hounton, Desmond KoromaAbstract:BackgroundIn order to track progress towards the target of universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a measure (Demand for family planning satisfied with modern contraceptive methods) and a benchmark (at least 75% by 2030 in all countries) have been recommended.ObjectivesThe goal of this study was to assess the prospects of reaching the benchmark at the country level. Such information can facilitate strategic planning, including resource allocation at global and country levels.DesignWe selected 63 countries based on their status as least developed according to the United Nations or as a priority country in global family planning initiatives. Using United Nations estimates and projections of family planning indicators between 1970 and 2030, we calculated percent Demand for family planning satisfied with modern contraceptive methods for each year and country. We then calculated the annual percentage point changes between 2014 and ...
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Meeting Demand for family planning within a generation the post 2015 agenda
The Lancet, 2015Co-Authors: Madeleine Short Fabic, John Stover, John Bongaarts, Yoonjoung Choi, John A Ross, Jacqueline E Darroch, Amy Ong Tsui, Jagdish Upadhyay, Ellen StarbirdAbstract:Expanding access to family planning has been a key aim of health and development programming for more than 40 years. During that time, significant gains have been made in reducing unmet need for family planning, increasing contraceptive prevalence, and preventing unintended pregnancies. Over the last two decades, however, the pace of these gains has slowed, especially in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Not only does family planning enable individuals and couples to achieve their childbearing (family building?) goals, an ever growing body of research shows the wider beneficial impact of family planning on improving maternal and child health and survival, increasing economic well-being of individuals, families and communities, and empowering women.i,ii
Jane Pirkis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Meeting Demand for psychological services for people with depression and anxiety recent developments in primary mental health care
The Medical Journal of Australia, 2008Co-Authors: Justine Fletcher, Bridget Bassilios, Fay Kohn, Lucio Naccarella, Grant Blashki, Philip Burgess, Jane PirkisAbstract:Objective: To examine whether there was a reduction in Demand for psychological services provided through the Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) projects after the introduction of the Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the Medicare Benefits Schedule (Better Access) program, and whether any such reduction was greater in urban than rural areas. Design and setting: A Division-level correlation analysis examining the relationship between the monthly number of sessions provided by allied health professionals through the ATAPS projects run by Divisions of General Practice, and allied health professional services reimbursed by Medicare Australia under the Better Access program, between 1 November 2006 and 31 March 2007. Main outcome measures: Uptake of each program, assessed by the number of sessions provided. Results: Overall, despite dramatic uptake of the Better Access program in the first 5 months after its introduction, the Demand for ATAPS services was not reduced. The correlations between the numbers of sessions provided by both programs overall (r = − 0.078; P = 0.074) and in rural Divisions (r = 0.024; P = 0.703) were not significant. However, there was a significant negative correlation between the numbers of sessions provided by both programs in urban Divisions (r = − 0.142; P = 0.019). Conclusions: For the first 5 months of the Better Access program, the two programs seemed to operate relatively independently of each other in terms of service provision, but in urban Divisions there was a move towards services provided through the Better Access program. Early indications are that the two programs are providing complementary services and are working together to address a previously unmet need for mental health care.
Anja Afentakis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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forecasting supply and Demand in nursing professions impacts of occupational flexibility and employment structure in germany
Human Resources for Health, 2013Co-Authors: Tobias Maier, Anja AfentakisAbstract:In light of Germany's ageing society, Demand for nursing professionals is expected to increase in the coming years. This will pose a challenge for policy makers to increase the supply of nursing professionals. To portray the different possible developments in the supply of nursing professionals, we projected the supply of formally trained nurses and the potential supply of persons who are able to work in a nursing profession. This potential supply of nursing professionals was calculated on the basis of empirical information on occupational mobility provided by the German Microcensus 2005 (Labour Force Survey). We also calculated how the supply of full-time equivalents (FTEs) will develop if current employment structures develop in the direction of employment behaviour in nursing professions in eastern and western Germany. We then compared these different supply scenarios with two Demand projections ('status quo' and 'compression of morbidity' scenarios) from Germany's Federal Statistical Office. Our results show that, even as early as 2005, Meeting Demand for FTEs in nursing professions was not arithmetically possible when only persons with formal qualification in a nursing profession were taken into account on the supply side. When additional semi-skilled nursing professionals are included in the calculation, a shortage of labour in nursing professions can be expected in 2018 when the employment structure for all nursing professionals remains the same as the employment structure seen in Germany in 2005 (Demand: 'status quo scenario'). Furthermore, given an employment structure as in eastern Germany, where more nursing professionals work on a full-time basis with longer working hours, a theoretical shortage of nursing professionals could be delayed until 2024. Our analysis of occupational flexibility in the nursing field indicates that additional potential supply could be generated by especially training more young people for a nursing profession as they tend to stay in their initial occupation. Furthermore, the number of FTEs in nursing professions could be increased by promoting more full-time contracts in Western Germany. Additionally, employment contracts for just a small number of weekly working hours (marginal employment) cannot be considered an adequate instrument for keeping formally trained nursing professionals employed in the nursing field.
Madeleine Short Fabic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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monitoring progress in equality for the sustainable development goals a case study of Meeting Demand for family planning
Global health science and practice, 2018Co-Authors: Yoonjoung Choi, Madeleine Short FabicAbstract:Objectives Equality is a central component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We took one SDG indicator and benchmark-percent of family planning Demand met with modern contraceptives, with a benchmark of at least 75% in all countries-as a case study to illuminate recommendations for monitoring equality. Specifically, we assessed levels, patterns, and trends in disparity by key background characteristics and identified disparity measures that are programmatically relevant and easy to interpret. Methods Data were from the Demographic and Health Surveys in 55 countries that have conducted at least 2 surveys since 1990. We calculated absolute difference among subgroups, disaggregated by age, education, household wealth quintile, urban/rural residence, subnational region/administrative unit, and marital status. Our unit of analysis was survey, and we conducted largely descriptive analyses. To understand trends in disparity, we used a fixed-effect linear regression model to estimate an annual rate of change in absolute differences. Results A significant level of disparity existed across various background characteristics, ranging from a median difference of 5 percentage points by marital status to 32 percentage points by administrative unit. On average across the study countries, national level of met Demand has increased over time while disparity has declined in most disaggregates including by education, wealth, residence, and age. We found statistically significant positive correlations among 4 disparity measures-education, wealth, residence, and administrative unit. Disparities by wealth quintile were easiest to interpret over time and across countries. Conclusions At the global level, we recommend monitoring disparity in met Demand by wealth quintile, which is strongly correlated with disparity by education, residence, and region and comparable across countries and over time. For monitoring by individual countries and for programmatic purposes, we further recommend monitoring disparity by first-level administrative unit, which can provide direct programmatic relevance.
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Meeting Demand for family planning within a generation prospects and implications at country level
Global Health Action, 2015Co-Authors: Yoonjoung Choi, Madeleine Short Fabic, Sennen Hounton, Desmond KoromaAbstract:BackgroundIn order to track progress towards the target of universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a measure (Demand for family planning satisfied with modern contraceptive methods) and a benchmark (at least 75% by 2030 in all countries) have been recommended.ObjectivesThe goal of this study was to assess the prospects of reaching the benchmark at the country level. Such information can facilitate strategic planning, including resource allocation at global and country levels.DesignWe selected 63 countries based on their status as least developed according to the United Nations or as a priority country in global family planning initiatives. Using United Nations estimates and projections of family planning indicators between 1970 and 2030, we calculated percent Demand for family planning satisfied with modern contraceptive methods for each year and country. We then calculated the annual percentage point changes between 2014 and ...
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Meeting Demand for family planning within a generation the post 2015 agenda
The Lancet, 2015Co-Authors: Madeleine Short Fabic, John Stover, John Bongaarts, Yoonjoung Choi, John A Ross, Jacqueline E Darroch, Amy Ong Tsui, Jagdish Upadhyay, Ellen StarbirdAbstract:Expanding access to family planning has been a key aim of health and development programming for more than 40 years. During that time, significant gains have been made in reducing unmet need for family planning, increasing contraceptive prevalence, and preventing unintended pregnancies. Over the last two decades, however, the pace of these gains has slowed, especially in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Not only does family planning enable individuals and couples to achieve their childbearing (family building?) goals, an ever growing body of research shows the wider beneficial impact of family planning on improving maternal and child health and survival, increasing economic well-being of individuals, families and communities, and empowering women.i,ii
Christine A Tanner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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association of faculty perceptions of work life with emotional exhaustion and intent to leave academic nursing report on a national survey of nurse faculty
Journal of Nursing Education, 2014Co-Authors: Michael J Yedidia, Jolene Chou, Susan Brownlee, Linda Flynn, Christine A TannerAbstract:: The current and projected nurse faculty shortage threatens the capacity to educate sufficient numbers of nurses for Meeting Demand. As part of an initiative to foster strategies for expanding educational capacity, a survey of a nationally representative sample of 3,120 full-time nurse faculty members in 269 schools and programs that offered at least one prelicensure degree program was conducted. Nearly 4 of 10 participants reported high levels of emotional exhaustion, and one third expressed an intent to leave academic nursing within 5 years. Major contributors to burnout were dissatisfaction with workload and perceived inflexibility to balance work and family life. Intent to leave was explained not only by age but by several potentially modifiable aspects of work, including dissatisfaction with workload, salary, and availability of teaching support. Preparing sufficient numbers of nurses to meet future health needs will require addressing those aspects of work-life that undermine faculty teaching capacity.