Valentina Zanin, Ludovica Segat, Anna Monica Bianco, Lara Padovan, Nathalia de Alencar Cunha Tavares, Sergio Crovella I University of Trieste, Institute for Maternal and Child Health – IRCCS ‘‘Burlo Garofolo’’, Trieste, Italy. II Institute for Maternal and Child Health – IRCCS ‘‘Burlo Garofolo’’Trieste, Italy. III Federal University of Pernambuco, Laboratory of Immunopathology Keizo Asami (LIKA...

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BACKGROUND Public Private Partnership has been experimented as an approach in Pakistan in 2005 and in eighteen districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Abbottabad in 2011, to improve delivery of maternal and child health services. This study was conducted to assess the utilization of maternal and child health services before and after implementation of Public Private Partnership in district Ab...

BACKGROUND A multiple-strategy community intervention, known as National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), launched in India to improve the availability of and access to better-quality healthcare, especially for rural, poor mothers and children. The final goal of the intervention is to reduce maternal and child health inequalities across geographical areas, socioeconomic status groups, and sex of th...