Chayovan N, Hermalin A I, Knodel J
Stud Fam Plann. 1984 Sep-Oct;15(5):201-11.
There are a variety of ways to conceptualize and measure accessibility to contraceptive services and supplies. Using detailed data for rural Thailand, a multiplicity of reasonable measures are developed that reflect time and/or distance to various government program outlets. Many of these are only moderately correlated with one another, and to an important extent, different measures show different associations with levels of contraceptive prevalence. Clearly there is a general need in this area of investigation to pay more attention to the measurement of accessibility as a community characteristic and to consider the sensitivity of results to alternate measures.
有多种方式来概念化和衡量获得避孕服务和用品的可及性。利用泰国农村的详细数据，制定了多种合理的衡量方法，这些方法反映了到各类政府项目服务点的时间和/或距离。其中许多衡量方法之间只是中等程度相关，而且在很大程度上，不同的衡量方法显示出与避孕普及率水平的不同关联。显然，在这一研究领域普遍需要更多地关注将可及性作为社区特征进行衡量，并考虑结果对替代衡量方法的敏感性。
