DFID Research: getting help with child birth can be costly
Research findings lead to government help for delivery costs.
Mother and child in Nepal. Picture: DFID
As part of DFID바카라 사이트™s work towards the Millennium Development Goal of cutting the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015, a project 바카라 사이트˜Achieving MDGs 4 & 5: Strategic research to develop the evidence-base for policy for mother and infant care at facility and community level바카라 사이트™ funded by the Central Research Department and led by the Institute of Child Health based in London, included a study on the .
Given that a poor woman in Nepal is 200 times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth than a woman in the UK, there has been much interest in ways of financing health care for pregnant women, and the economic impact of different methods on the household.
Based on a large scale household survey in rural Nepal, the costs of delivery care to households were measured, and coping strategies to pay for care investigated along with women바카라 사이트™s preferences for care at birth. The results indicated that households spend considerable sums, and resulted in the government introduction of a cash transfer programme, compensating women attending facilities for care during delivery.
The study also showed how the use of good statistics made a difference to policy making.
For more information, see the project record 바카라 사이트˜.바카라 사이트™
Other DFID funded projects of related interest include: , and .