Assessment of Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Services: A Global Tool for Assessing and Improving Postabortion Care for Youth
Abstract
This tool is designed to help assessment teams, project managers, supervisors, and providers collect detailed information on the quality of
Postabortion Care (PAC) services provided to adolescents at a given facility in order to make services more youth-friendly. It can also be used
before PAC services have been established to see how best to design PAC services to meet youth’s needs. The assessment process facilitates the
development of action plans for quality improvement that can help facilities address policy, operations, training, and other program areas needing
adjustments and change. The tool also provides essential baseline information, allowing for repeated applications to measure changes and the impact
of program interventions. Although the tool is primarily for use by a team, it may also be used by an individual.
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