… -poor seeking care in the public … burden of maternal health care services on Indian
households and quantify the levels of expenditure including indirect costs incurred at the national, …

… the utmost burden of maternal mortality in India) accounting for … fees; rather, opportunity costs
including travel time and waiting … The multilevel structure of the data used in this analysis is …

… burden of the nation. The state reports disproportionately … model was implemented in
developing the multilevel model [… the data support the decision to model the multiple levels of …

… 33,34], there are limited studies on the economic burden of maternal care over time in India.
… , institutional delivery and postnatal care was directly available in the data set and were …

… were assessed using multilevel modelling approach, allowing us … Health insurance is expected
to reduce the burden of costs … costs associated with maternal and childcare because the …

… expenditure on C-section deliveries in public health facilities in NFHS 4 and NFHS 5. The
present study explores district-level data associated with health … maternity healthcare services …

… information related to spending on maternity care from the data set. … study also revealed
that those from the general caste have a higher burden of CHS due to maternal health services …

… This study used data from the most recent nationally … a health service in the first stage and
a prediction equation for the model’s outcome variable-level of OOP health expenditure at the …

… Interestingly, the findings from this study found that the public and private maternity costs
were … burden of maternal health care expenditure in India: multilevel analysis of national data. …

… Multilevel modelling allows to disentangle processes … put towards addressing maternal
mortality in India through targeted … For example, North East Indian states have higher burden …