,,,Assessing Costs and Benefits Of Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions

Assessing Costs and Benefits Of Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions


 

Publication Date: December 2004

Publisher: Guttmacher Institute

Author(s): Michael Vlassoff; Susheela Singh; Jacqueline E. Darroch; Erin Carbone

Research Area: Health; Social conditions

Type: Report

Abstract:

In this current climate of financial constraints coupled with competing priorities among developmental goals, it becomes ever more critical for policymakers and others responsible for allocating resources to have firstrate tools available as a guide for effective decision making. The overall aim of this report is to inform such decision makers about the key findings of existing studies about the costs and benefits of investments in sexual and reproductive health, to identify what factors the studies encompass and what they leave out, and to provide a complete picture of what the costs and benefits would look like, including benefits that are hard to measure.