Universalisation versus targeting in maternal and child health care provisioning: Evidence from India.

ABSTRACT: To eradicate the persistent inequality in utilisation of Maternal Health Care Services (MHCS), India's Government has adopted various programmes under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005. The Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a demand-side intervention, is one of the flagship programmes under the NRHM. Using two rounds of the nationally representative National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data collected in 2005-06 and 2015-16, respectively, we attempt to map the extent to which inequality in MHCS utilisation has changed over time across states after the implementation of NRHM; analyse whether there are differences in the patterns of inequality prevalent in the universal and targeted states; and find evidence to decide whether universalisation is more effective than targeting in red

SUBMITTER: Paul S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6838526 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature