Executive summary Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing …

To improve maternal health requires action to ensure quality maternal health care for all
women and girls, and to guarantee access to care for those outside the system. In this paper …

The private for-profit sector's prominence in health-care delivery, and concern about its
failures to deliver social benefit, has driven a search for interventions to improve the sector's …

If universal health coverage (UHC) cannot be achieved without the sexual and reproductive
health (SRH) needs of the population being met, what then is the current situation vis-à-vis …

This paper presents the findings of a literature review on public private partnerships (PPPs)
in two sectors–education and health–in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It highlights the …

Objective To describe the types of maternal and newborn health program accountability
mechanisms implemented and evaluated in recent years in Sub-Saharan Africa, how these …

We conducted a randomized controlled experiment to test whether vouchers, cash transfers,
and SMS messages were effective in boosting facility delivery rates among poor, pregnant …

Family planning (FP) vouchers have targeted subsidies to disadvantaged populations for
quality reproductive health services since the 1960s. To summarize the effect of FP voucher …

Health financing strategies that incorporate financial incentives are being applied in many
low-and middle-income countries, and improving maternal and neonatal health is often a …

Abstract Background Maternity care in South Asia is available in both public and private
sectors. Using data from demographic surveillance sites in Bangladesh, Nepal and rural and …