妇女基本生育健康需求评估的两类方法

Two Methodologies to Assess Women's Needs for Reproductive Health Services

通过对妇女基本生育健康需求评估的两种方法,即传统的流行病学方法和参与性农村评估(Participatoryrural appraisal,PRA)方法的比较,对两种方法的性质、优缺点进行了评价,认为用流行病学方法评估妇女生育健康的需求只提供了测量需求的一个维度,而PRA方法则提供了另一个维度,只有两种方法结合才能对妇女的需求有客观全面的了解。

This paper introduces two kinds of methodologies to assess women's needs for reproductive health services: traditional epidemiological/medical method and participatory rural appraisal (PRA). The features, advantages and disadvantages of each of the two methods have been discussed. The final conclusion is that epidemiological method can only provide one dimension to evaluate women's needs while PRA provides another dimension to evaluate women's needs. The integration of the two methods can draw a more comprehensive picture to understand women's needs.