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Free Delivery: The eect of a delivery fee exemption policy on the utilization of maternal health services in Ghana
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gr, Karen |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | User fees are believed to reduce demand for health services but are an important source of revenue and provide incentives to health care providers in developing countries. The elimination of user fees has been advocated as a strategy to increase the utilization of maternity services but the eectiveness of such policies is not well understood. In late 2003, Ghana introduced a delivery fee exemption policy, initially rolling the policy out to 4 of its 10 regions, creating a natural experiment to evaluate the eect of user fees using a dierences-in-die rences study design. My ndings suggest that this policy was eective at increasing the proportion of births supervised by trained medical personnel and the proportion of births delivered in facilities but may have had an adverse eect on the quality of services delivered. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://paa2009.princeton.edu/papers/91466 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
