Integrating Family Planning Promotion into the Work of Environmental Volunteers: A Population, Health and Environment Initiative in Kenya

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Date of Publication: March 2015

Year of Publication: 2015

Publication City: New York, NY

Publisher: Guttmacher Institute

Author(s): Theresa H Hoke, Caroline Mackenzie, Gwyneth Vance, Brooke Boyer, Eva Canoutas, John Bratt, Agatha Mbulo, Nancy Waceke

Journal: International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volume: 41: 1

The authors use a pilot Environment, Health and Population (EHP) intervention conducted by the Green Belt Movement to  evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, perception of effects, costs, and challenges of the intervention.

“The study results illustrate the potential value of a PHE (Population Health Environment) intervention in which environmental agents do not serve as community health workers delivering family planning services, but rather work in close collaboration with the health sector.”

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