Empowering women to obtain high quality care: evidence from an evaluation of Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme
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Empowering women to obtain high quality care: evidence from an evaluation of Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme on the quality of health care received by poor women. Quality is measured by maternal reports of prenatal care procedures received that correspond with clinical guidelines. METHODS The data describe retrospective reports of care received from 892 women in poor rural communities in seven Mexican states. The women...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Planning
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0268-1080,1460-2237
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czn039