Do efforts to standardize, assess and improve the quality of health service provision to adolescents by government-run health services in low and middle income countries, lead to improvements in service-quality and service-utilization by adolescents?

Table 2 Analysis of how adequately the WHO dimensions of quality are addressed in the national standards for quality health service provision for adolescents of selected countries

Country	Accessibility	Acceptability	Equity	Appropriateness	Effectiveness
Bangladesh [10]	Highly adequate	Highly adequate	Highly adequate	Moderately adequately	Moderately adequate
Bangladesh [10]	Standards 1, 2,	Standards 3, 4, 6	Standard 5	Standard 8	Standard 9
India [11]	Highly adequate	Moderately adequate	Not fully adequate	Highly adequate	Moderately adequate
India [11]	Standards 1, 5, 6	Standard 3	Standard 1	Standards 1, 2	Standard 2
Indonesia [12]	Moderately adequate	Highly adequate	Absent	Not fully adequate	Highly adequate
Indonesia [12]	Standards 3, 4	Standards 1, 2, 3, 4	Absent	Standard 2 ,	Standards 1, 2, 5
Malawi [13]	Moderately adequate	Moderately adequate	Absent	Not fully adequate	Highly adequate
Malawi [13]	Standards 2, 3	Standard 3, 4	Absent	Standard 2	Standards 1, 4, 5
Moldova [14]	Highly adequate	Moderately adequate	Moderately adequate	Absent	Not fully adequate
Moldova [14]	Standards 1, 2, 4	Standard 3	Standard 6		Standard 5
Mongolia [15]	Highly adequate	Highly adequate	Absent	Highly adequate	Highly adequate
Mongolia [15]	Standards 3, 4	Standards 2, 3, 4	Absent	Standards 1, 4	Standards 1, 3
Tanzania [16]	Highly adequate	Highly adequate	Not fully adequate	Not fully adequate	Highly adequate
Tanzania [16]	Standards 1, 7	Standards 3, 6	Standard 2	Standard 6	Standards 2, 3, 4, 5,
Ukraine [17]	Moderately adequate	Highly adequate	Not fully adequate	Moderately adequate	Highly adequate
Ukraine [17]	Standards 3, 5, 9	Standards 3, 4, 9	Standard 5	Standards 7, 8	Standards 2, 6, 10

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