The state-led large scale public private partnership 'chiranjeevi program' to increase access to institutional delivery among poor women in Gujarat, India: How has it done? What can we learn?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  De Costa, Ayesha ^a   Vora, Kranti S ^b   Ryan, Kayleigh ^a   Raman, Parvathy Sankara ^b   Santacatterina, Michele ^a   Mavalankar, Dileep ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; OBSTETRICIAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; ADULT; DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84900438491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095704     Document Type: Article

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