Effect of a multifaceted social franchising model on quality and coverage of maternal, newborn, and reproductive health-care services in Uttar Pradesh, India: a quasi-experimental study

• Main Authors: Sarah Tougher, MSc (Author), Varun Dutt, PGDip (Author), Shreya Pereira, MSc (Author), Kaveri Haldar, MPP (Author), Vasudha Shukla, PhD (Author), Kultar Singh, PGDip (Author), Paresh Kumar, PGDip (Author), Prof Catherine Goodman, PhD (Author), Timothy Powell-Jackson, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: How to harness the private sector to improve population health in low-income and middle-income countries is heavily debated and one prominent strategy is social franchising. We aimed to evaluate whether the Matrika social franchising model-a multifaceted intervention that established a n...