Contracting in specialists for emergency obstetric care- Does it work in rural India?

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Randive, Bharat ^a,b   Chaturvedi, Sarika ^a,b,c   Mistry, Nerges ^b  

^a Dept of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology   (India)

^b Foundation for Research in Community Health India   (India)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contracting in; Emergency obstetric care; India; Janani Suraksha Yojana; Public private partnership

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANPOWER; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SPECIALIZATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CONTRACT SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; SPECIALIZATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871683320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-485     Document Type: Article

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