Impact of fee subsidy policy on perinatal health in a low-resource setting: A quasi-experimental study.

BACKGROUND:A national subsidy policy was introduced in 2007 in Burkina Faso to improve financial accessibility to facility-based delivery. In this article, we estimated the effects of reducing user fees on institutional delivery and neonatal mortality, immediately and three years after the introduct...

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Main Authors: Ivlabèhiré Bertrand Meda, Alexandre Dumont, Seni Kouanda, Valéry Ridde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6224097?pdf=render