TY - JOUR AU - White, Justin S. AU - Speizer, Ilene S. PY - 2007 DA - 2007/09/05 TI - Can family planning outreach bridge the urban-rural divide in Zambia? JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 143 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Zambia experienced declining aggregate fertility and increasing aggregate contraceptive use from 1990 to 2000. Yet, in rural Zambia, progress in family planning has lagged far behind the advances made in Zambia's urban areas. The contraceptive prevalence rate in Lusaka and other urban areas outstripped the rate in rural Zambia by nearly 25 percentage points (41.2 percent versus 16.6 percent) in 2001. The total fertility rate varied between urban and rural areas by 2.5 children (4.3 versus 6.9 children). This paper considers the urban-rural differentials in Zambia and assesses family planning outreach as a tool to narrow this divide. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-143 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-7-143 ID - White2007 ER -