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 stat...

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Published in:Journal of Health, Population & Nutrition Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 249 - 259
Main Authors: Bhat R, Mavalankar DV, Singh PV, Singh N, Bhat, Ramesh, Mavalankar, Dileep V, Singh, Prabal V, Singh, Neelu
Format: research Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central Apr2009
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