Signal functions for measuring the ability of health facilities to provide abortion services: an illustrative analysis using a health facility census in Zambia

Table 4 Benchmarks according to Safe Abortion Care (SAC) criteria proposed by Healy and colleagues [8]

Benchmark	Facilities needed given population of Zambia in 2005 was 11,377,000 [43]	Numbers of SAC facilities available^a	Percent available of SAC needed
1+ comprehensive facilities per 500,000 population	23	19	83 %
4 basic facilities per 500,000 population	91	32	34 %
5 total facilities per 500,000 population	114	51	45 %

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