Financial incentives to influence maternal mortality in a low-income setting: Making available 'money to transport' - experiences from Amarpatan, India

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  De Costa, Ayesha ^a,b   Patil, Rajkumar ^c   Kushwah, Sugriv Singh ^c   Diwan, Vinod Kumar ^a,b  

^a Madhya Pradesh Basic Health Services Programme III   (India)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SS Medical College Rewa   (India)

Author keywords

India; Maternal mortality; Reproductive health services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857780872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.1866     Document Type: Article

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