Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries. (SHSOP 24)

Foreword [pdf, 67 KB]

Introduction

• Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries: the need for action [pdf, 129 KB]

Chapter 1: Context

• Overview of the costs of obstetric care and the economic and social consequences for households [pdf, 219KB]

Chapter 2: Cost-sharing experience in Burkina Faso

• Cost-sharing scheme for emergency osbtetric care in Secteur 30 health district, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso [pdf, 212KB]

Chapter 3: Obstetic risk insurance (ORI) in Mauritania

• Risk sharing as solution for providing access to emergency obstetric care: experience with obstetric risk insurance in Mauritania [pdf, 221KB]

Chapter 4: Role of community health insurances

• MURIGA in Guinea: an experience of community health insurance focused on obstetric risks [pdf, 428KB]
• Community health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa: opportunities for improving access to emergency obstetric care? [pdf, 139KB]

Chapter 5: Fee exemption strategies

• National fee exemption schemes for deliveries: comparing the recent experiences of Ghana and Senegal [pdf, 202KB]
• Bolivia’s Health Reform: a response to improve access to obstetric care [pdf, 220KB]

Chapter 6: How to protect the poorest

• Improving access to safe delivery for poor pregnant women: a case study of vouchers plus health equity funds in three health districts in Cambodia [pdf, 188KB]
• A conditional cash assistance programme for promoting institutional deliveries among the poor in India: process evaluation results [pdf, 148KB]

Chapter 7: Synthesis and conclusion

• Learning lessons and moving forward: how to reduce financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income contexts [pdf, 261KB] 

Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries. - complete document [pdf, 1486 KB]