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Disease Prevention
Direct payments to poor families could improve maternal, child health
December 23rd, 2004
Results of a study from Honduras show how direct cash payments from government to poor families improve their use of antenatal and infant health services. Scaling-up of effective preventive interventions in child and maternal health is often restricted in developing countries by a lack of demand for health services from the local population. In Latin America some governments have been trying to increase demand for health interventions by making direct payments to poor households contingent on them keeping up-to-date with preventive health services. There is very limited evidence to date, however, showing that direct payments improve the take-up of these services. ...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-23)
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