How maternal health scheme boosted vaccination
4 years, 4 months ago

How maternal health scheme boosted vaccination

Live Mint  

In 2005, the Indian government rolled out Janani Suraksha Yojana, a maternal protection scheme, to promote institutional deliveries. But the scheme has also been able to boost child vaccination, even though it was not a planned goal, new research shows. To assess the scheme’s impact, researchers Prabal K. De and Laxman Timilsina use data on women’s health and economic indicators, and vaccination rates from the 2004 and 2012 rounds of the India Human Development Survey. The authors use the District-Level Health Survey and the Annual Health Survey to get data on cash transfers made under the scheme. A child in a JSY district was 4.4 percentage points more likely to get a BCG vaccine than a child in the other districts.

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