Showing 1 - 10 of 4,591
This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190156
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821616
Empirical literature analyzing the effect of pay-for-performance programs (P4P) for healthcare providers on maternal care and newborn health outcomes is scarce. In 2008, Uruguay’s Ministry of Public Health implemented a P4P called Metas Asistenciales (Healthcare Goals), a country-wide program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484636
Deficient birth outcomes entail greater mortality risks and higher probabilities of poor future health. This study examines the effect of the World Health Organization’s prenatal care recommendations for developing countries. It accounts for the endogenous nature of prenatal care decisions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180435
for the pursuit of policies that encourage adequate use of prenatal care by expectant mothers such as ensuring … mothers have to cover when seeking prenatal care services, intensifying education of females as a way of empowering them to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526628
care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … this improves their use of maternal health services. Policy should also target mothers who have had the experience of child … birth on the need to use adequate Antenatal care for each pregnancy, since these mothers tend to use less antenatal care for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752865
Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal iron supplementation as components of prenatal care. Micro-data having 25999 and 19764...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336706
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796243
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670388
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012618530