COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOUR CHANGE INTERVENTIONS: A PROPOSED NEW APPROACH AND AN APPLICATION TO EGYPT

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
WARREN C. ROBINSON ◽  
GARY L. LEWIS
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Know How ◽  
Contraceptive Services ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
Protection Index ◽  
Health Programmes

This paper presents a new approach to cost analysis of family planning programmes that focuses on behaviour change of programme clients as the final ‘output’ rather than units of contraceptive services delivered, as does the familiar couple-years-of-protection index. It is useful to know how much it costs to deliver a unit of contraceptive services, but it would also seem useful to know how much it costs to change a prospective client’s behaviour. The proposed approach rests on the familiar ‘steps to behaviour change’ paradigm and: (1) develops a methodology for applying a client-behaviour-change-centred cost analysis to programme activities; (2) tests the methodology and concepts by applying them retrospectively to a case study of mass media interventions in Egypt; (3) derives cost per unit of behaviour changes for these Egyptian communications campaigns to demonstrate the workability of the approach. This framework offers a new approach to impact evaluation that would seem to be applicable to other components of family planning and reproductive health programmes.

scholarly journals Advertising in Social-Media as A New Approach in Mental Illness Campaign Among Youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Norshahira Atikah Mohd Razak ◽  
◽  
Mohd Nasiruddin Abdul Aziz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
Major Depressive Episodes ◽  
Depressive Episodes

Nowadays, the mass media have often aired unexpected news of death and suicide. Peoples that under depression did not want to seek help and people surrounding them did not know how to help them either. There have been numerous efforts by various parties to address this problem time by time. However, previous related study shows an increasing number of major depressive episodes from the year 2010 until 2018 among young adults. Psychologists believe that the numbers will continue to rise in 2020 if no changes were made. This research intends to educate people on how to treat friends or family members that have a depression through advertising by using social media platforms to gain awareness among youngsters about the bad effect of depression. Contextual analysis from the case study and a survey has been conducted. Data have been collected from interviews, newspapers, and published reports. This research found that the majority of the respondents did not know how to help people that have depression and they usually take a wrong step while helping them. The social campaign was expected to be the key driver for change in the public’s attitudes and behaviour.

A Detailed Approach for Cost Analysis for Early CCS Projects: A Case Study from the Illinois Basin - Decatur Project

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sallie Greenberg ◽  
Keri Canaday ◽  
Austyn Vance ◽  
Ray McKaskle ◽  
John Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Illinois Basin

Do Family Planning Field Workers Approve of Induced Abortion?

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
George P. Cernada
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Ethical Judgment ◽  
Induced Abortion ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contraceptive Services ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Field Workers

The Taiwan Government has begun to consider relaxing legal restrictions on induced abortion. The four hundred field workers who provide contraceptive services and referrals as part of the Governmental health services at the township level were surveyed about induced abortion. These workers are considered to be most likely to be involved in future governmental programs related to abortion. Major findings were that the workers, although favorable in general to induced abortion as expected are often unfavorable under certain circumstances, differ somewhat from the public they serve, and do not espouse views in consonance with existing laws. Furthermore, cumulative ethical judgment scales are shown to exist which could have important program implications. Recommendations for educational activity are made.

Fertility and Family Planning in Taiwan: A Case Study of the Demographic Transition

1964 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Freedman ◽  
John Y. Takeshita ◽  
T. H. Sun
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Demographic Transition

Benefit Corporations Approach to Environmental, Social and Governance Disclosure: A Focus on Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Sciarelli ◽  
Silvia Cosimato ◽  
Giovanni Landi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Corporate Structure ◽  
New Approach ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
Benefit Corporations ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Governance Disclosure

AbstractOver the last decades, Benefit Corporations arouse as a new corporate structure, alternative to traditional ones and pointing to offer a new approach to the management of business and sustainability issues. These companies' activities are statutory aimed at bridging for-profit and no-profit activities; thus, they intentionally and statutory pursue economic purposes together with social and environmental ones, to create a positive impact on economy, society and environment. Even though, Italian and other national laws set some specific disclosure duties for Benefit Corporations, especially in terms of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, the literature still calls for further research on the topic. Therefore, this paper is aimed at contributing to bridge this gap, investigating the way Italian Benefit Corporations approach ESG disclosure. To this end, an exploratory analysis has been conducted, implementing a qualitative method, based on a multiple case study strategy. Even though the descriptive nature of the study, the achieved findings pointed out that the Benefit Corporation structure not necessarily implies a better approach to ESG.

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