Impact of maternal and child health private expenditure on poverty and inequity in Bangladesh : maternal and child health expenditure in Bangladesh; technical report C

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2012

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Asian Development Bank

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Findings suggest the need for substantial increases in public financing of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) services. Such increases in spending might be prioritized initially on improving funding of childbirth care and in improving the availability of medicines at MOHFW facilities. Results also demonstrate that badly targeted government health expenditures also apply to MNCH services, with less than one-tenth of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) expenditures on childbirth care benefiting the poorest 40%. Government expenditures disproportionately benefit the nonpoor, and very little reaches the poorest mothers and children.

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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, HEALTH FINANCING, BANGLADESH, HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE, OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENDITURE, ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, CHILD HEALTH, GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES, HEALTH INEQUALITY

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/53841
 http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/30159/impact-mnch-private-expenditure-poverty-inequity-bangladesh-tr-c.pdf

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