Level and Determinants of Incentives for Village Midwives in Indonesia
Language:
English
Series/Journal Title:
Health Policy and Planning
Volume:
24
Issue:
1
Copyright:
2009
Description:
Since the early 1990s Indonesia has attempted to increase the level of skilled attendance at birth by placing rural midwives in every village in an effort to reduce persistently high levels of maternal mortality. Yet evidence suggests that there remains insufficient incentive to ensure an equal distribution across areas while the poor in all areas continue to access skilled attendance much less than those in richer groups. We report on a survey that was conducted as part of a complex evaluation of the rural midwife programme in Banten Province, to better understand the effect of financial incentives on the distribution of midwives and use of services. [from abstract]
Subject
Geographic Focus
Resource Type
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