Closing the gap? Results-based financing and socio-economic-related inequalities in maternal health outcomes in Zimbabwe.

ABSTRACT: The results-based financing (RBF) programme, first implemented in Zimbabwe in 2011 and gradually expanded to other districts, aimed to address disparities in maternal health outcomes by improving the utilization of health services. This study leverages the staggered rollout of the programme as a quasi-experimental design to assess its impact on asset wealth-related inequalities in selected maternal health outcomes. The objective is to determine whether RBF can effectively reduce these disparities and promote equitable healthcare access. We employ an extended two-way fixed effects (ETWFE) model to exploit temporal variation in RBF implementation as well as individual-level variation in birth timing for identification. Utilizing pooled cross-sectional and nationally representative data from

SUBMITTER: Makate M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11562138 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature