Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 7, Issue 14 , Pages 39-48 , November 1999

Mobility of women and access to health and family planning services in Pakistan

  • Ayesha Khan

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAyesha Khan, 11/1-A, Ninth Central Street Defence Phase II, Karachi, Pakistan.

References 

  1. Parvez MA , Chaudhry MA , Rehman F , et al.   Utilization of Rural Basic Health Services in Pakistan . Islamabad: Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan, WHO; 1993;
  2. Sathar Z , Kazi S . Women's Autonomy, Livelihood and Fertility: A Study of Rural Punjab . Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics; 1997;
  3. Hakim A , Cleland J , Bhatti MH . In: Pakistan Fertility and Family Planning Survey 1996–1997: Main Report . Islamabad: National Institute of Population Studies and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; 1998;
  4. Cernada G , Rob AU , Ameen S , et al.   A Situation Analysis of Family Welfare Centres in Pakistan . In: Operations Research Working Paper No. 4 . 1993;
  5. In: Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey 1994–1995 . Islamabad: Ministry of Population Welfare, Population Council; 1998;
  6. The Gap Between Reproductive Intentions and Behaviour: A Study of Punjabi Men and Women . Islamabad: Population Council; 1997;
  7. In: Report of the Inquiry Commission on the Status of Women . Government of Pakistan; 1997;
  8. The Village Relations Study: An Analysis of Thirty-Eight Focus Group Discussions . In: Research Note No. 1 . Islamabad: Population Council; 1997;
  9. For insights into the limits of the doorstep approach in increasing women's autonomy and its utility as a beginning for overcoming problems of access, see: Schuler SR , Hashemi SM , Cullum A , et al.   The advent of family planning as a social norm in Bangladesh: women's experiences . Reproductive Health Matters . 1996;(7):66–78 Schuler SR . The next chapter in Bangladesh's demographic success story: conflicting readings . Reproductive Health Matters . 1999;7(13):145–153
  10. For more on the issue of female education and its linkages with positively influencing gender relations in the context of Indian society, see: Kumar A , Vlassoff C . Gender relations and education of girls in two Indian communities: implications for decisions about childbearing . Reproductive Health Matters . 1997;5(10):139–150

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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 7, Issue 14 , Pages 39-48 , November 1999

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