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India’s conditional cash transfer programme (the JSY) to promote institutional birth: Is there an association between institutional birth proportion and maternal mortality? [1]

India accounts for 19% of global maternal deaths, three-quarters of which come from nine states. In 2005, India launched a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), to reduce maternal mortality ratio (MMR) through promotion of institutional births. JSY is the largest CCT in the world. In the nine states with relatively lower socioeconomic levels, JSY provides a cash incentive to all women on birthing in health institution. The cash incentive is intended to reduce financial barriers to accessing institutional care for delivery. Increased institutional births are expected to reduce MMR. Thus, JSY is expected to (a) increase institutional births and (b) reduce MMR in states with high proportions of institutional births. We examine the association between (a) service uptake, i.e., institutional birth proportions and (b) health outcome, i.e., MMR.

Publication Date: 
27/06/2013
Bharat Randive [2], Vishal Diwan [3], Ayesha De Costa [4]
PLoS ONE [5]
1-8
Tags:
Maternal Health [6], Infant mortality [7], India [8], Direct Cash Transfer [9], Anti-Poverty Programmes [10], Bihar [11], Uttar Pradesh [12], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [13], Health Care [14], Madhya Pradesh [15], Rajasthan [16], Orissa [17], Jharkhand [18], Chhattisgarh [19], Rural Health [20], Public Sector [21]

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