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Research

Sustainable Health Service Delivery

The demand for family planning services is growing. Yet the financial resources of many developing country health programs are not keeping pace, making revenue generation and cost containment critical for program survival.   Through collaborative research in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the economics group at Family Health International (FHI) works with providers and program planners to fill the gap between client needs and program resources.

Creating Economic Sustainability

 

FHI health economists help programs explore ways to generate local income to reduce reliance on external funding and cut costs by improving the use of existing resources. This is done by helping programs:

 

  • Measure client ability to pay for reproductive health services
  • Assess the impact of price increases on utilization, revenues, and client profile
  • Identify strategies to improve cost recovery
  • Assess current productivity of resources
  • Estimate current cost per service in reproductive health programs
  • Estimate costs of meeting future demand for reproductive health services under different assumptions of productivity
  • Measure and compare the cost effectiveness of program alternatives


Selected FHI health economics projects

 

Global Operations Research: FHI works with the Population Council's USAID-supported Frontiers in Reproductive Health project to help program managers conduct financial analyses that can improve both the productivity of programs and the quality of care. Armed with economically sound information, managers can evaluate how to use resources more efficiently and generate revenue to make their programs sustainable. For more information about Frontiers, visit the Population Council's Web site.

 

Horizons:  FHI is a partner in the Horizons project, working with a coalition of US-based and international organizations to design, implement, and evaluate programs on HIV/AIDS prevention and care.  For more information about Horizons, visit the Population Council's Web site.

See Also:
Health Economics topic page