Does healthcare voucher provision improve utilisation in the continuum of maternal care for poor pregnant women? Experience from Bangladesh

• Main Authors: Shehrin Shaila Mahmood (Author), Mark Amos (Author), Shahidul Hoque (Author), Mohammad Nahid Mia (Author), Asiful Haidar Chowdhury (Author), Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi (Author), Mohammad Iqbal (Author), William Stones (Author), Saseendran Pallikadavath (Author), Abbas Bhuiya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Improving maternal health is a major development goal, with ambitious targets set for high-mortality countries like Bangladesh. Following a steep decline in the maternal mortality ratio over the past decade in Bangladesh, progress has plateaued at 196/100,000 live births. A voucher schem...