Performance-based financing to increase utilization of maternal health services: Evidence from Burkina Faso

• Main Authors: Maria Steenland (Author), Paul Jacob Robyn (Author), Philippe Compaore (Author), Moussa Kabore (Author), Boukary Tapsoba (Author), Aloys Zongo (Author), Ousmane Diadie Haidara (Author), Günther Fink (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Performance-based financing (PBF) programs are increasingly implemented in low and middle-income countries to improve health service quality and utilization. In April 2011, a PBF pilot program was launched in Boulsa, Leo and Titao districts in Burkina Faso with the objective of increasing the provis...