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In this book the authors review initiatives in improving the quality of care for family planning in India and bring them to the broader forum of policy-level discussions. ​The global Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) framework argues for voluntary rights-based family planning programmes. The rights-based approach builds on the bedrock of quality of care, which means listening to what women want, treating individuals with dignity and respect and ensuring that everyone has access to full information and high quality care. Improving the quality of care in family planning services in a country like India is crucial from individual, national and global considerations. This book critically discusses and evaluates the various interventions undertaken so far and the reasons for success and failure. It also synthesizes current research studies in India, identifies gaps and presents a research agenda to bridge this gap and accelerate progress towards improving quality of care in family planning. It presents a comprehensive framework that underscores the importance of health systems and community environments in creating enabling, motivating and empowering roles for providers and clients. The examples and perspectives presented in this book make a strong case for adoption into policy frameworks and scaling up of quality of care efforts, and identifying research priorities for strengthening the response to family planning. This book greatly contributes towards enhancing the quality of family planning care at the grass-roots level in low resource settings and is of interest to researchers and practitioners of public health, particularly community health, maternal and child health, and social work.

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Jay Satia is a former Indian institute of Management Ahmedabad Professor where he served for more than 20 years and was its Dean during 1987-1989. At IIMA, he worked on operations management as well as on management of health, population and nutrition programmes. During the period 1993-2008, he was the Executive Director of the International Council on Management of Population Programmes, a Malaysia- based international NGO dedicated to seeking excellence in management of population programmes through leadership and management development. At present he is an Emeritus Professor at the India Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar and Senior Advisor to the President, Public Health Foundation of India. He has several publications to his credit on management, leadership and population issues and has held a range of management and Board of Directors positions in various Indian and international organizations.He holds BE from Bombay University and MS and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, USA.  Kavita Chauhan is a behavioural science professional at the Public Health Foundation of India. She has over 14 years of experience in designing and managing strategic health communication and advocacy initiatives, research on behaviour change and capacity building on public health communications. Her previous work at CARE India integrated planning, and implementing strategies related to reproductive health needs of communities with special focus on young people. At Futures Group Inc., under the global POLICY Project, she formulated HIV/AIDS policy interventions with the Government, faith-based organisations and NGOs, and facilitated decentralised planning for HIV/AIDS and maternal health efforts. She holds BA in English literature and MA in Social Work from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and MSc Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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