Maternal Healthcare Financing: Gujarat’s Chiranjeevi Scheme and Its Beneficiaries
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Maternal Healthcare Financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi Scheme and Its Beneficiaries
Maternal mortality is an important public-health issue in India, specifically in Gujarat. Contributing factors are the Government's inability to operationalize the First Referral Units and to provide an adequate level of skilled birth attendants, especially to the poor. In response, the Gujarat state has developed a unique public-private partnership called the Chiranjeevi Scheme. This scheme fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1606-0997
DOI: 10.3329/jhpn.v27i2.3367