Systematic Screening: A Strategy for Determining and Meeting Client Reproductive Health Needs

This brief focuses on the following points:

Systematic screening is a simple process by which health care providers can increase the number of client needs addressed during a single visit.
Research shows that systematic screening can increase the number of services received per client visit to a health care facility by as much as 25 percent.
Adopting systematic screening can be a cost-effective strategy for programs to offer more services and thus to improve women’s and children’s health. Systematic screening is a USAID best practice.

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English (260.68k)

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Length:

2 p

Year:

2006

Organization:

INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs

Languages:

English

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