Evaluation of health in pregnancy grants in Scotland: a protocol for a natural experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A substantial proportion of low birth weight is attributable to the mother's cultural and socioeconomic circumstances. Early childhood programmes have been widely developed to improve child outcomes. In the UK, the Health in Pregnancy (HiP) grant, a universal conditional cash transfer of £190, was introduced for women reaching the 25th week of pregnancy with a due date on/or after 6 April 2009 and subsequently withdrawn for women reaching the 25th week of pregnancy on/or after 1 January 2011. The current study focuses on the evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the HiP grant.

Methods and analysis

The population under study will be all singleton births in Scotland over the periods of January 2004 to March 2009 (preintervention), April 2009 to

SUBMITTER: Dundas R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4202003 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature