Direct Cost of Maternity-care Services in South Delhi: A Community Survey

The study was conducted to estimate the direct maternity-care expense for women who recently delivered in South Delhi and to explore its sociodemographic associations. A survey was conducted using the two-stage cluster-randomized sampling technique. Two colonies each from high-, middle- and low-inco...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of health, population and nutrition Jg. 27; H. 3; S. 368 - 378
Hauptverfasser: Dhar, Rinku Sen Gupta, Nagpal, Jitender, Sinha, Swati, Bhargava, V.L, Sachdeva, Aarti, Bhartia, Abhishek
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bangladesh icddr,b 01.06.2009
ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research
BioMed Central Ltd
Springer Nature B.V
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Schlagworte:
Adult
Cesarean section
Cesarean Section - economics
Cesarean Section - statistics & numerical data
Childbirth
Cluster Analysis
Colonies
Colonies & territories
Community health care
Community survey
Control
Cost estimates
Costs
Costs and Cost Analysis - methods
Costs and Cost Analysis - statistics & numerical data
Data Collection - methods
Data Collection - statistics & numerical data
Delivery costs
Delivery, Obstetric - economics
Delivery, Obstetric - statistics & numerical data
Demographic aspects
Economic aspects
Female
Government
Health aspects
Health care
Health care delivery
Health care expenditures
Health expenditure
Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data
Health services
Health surveys
Healthcare cost
Home Childbirth - economics
Home Childbirth - statistics & numerical data
Hospital costs
Hospitals
Hospitals, Private - statistics & numerical data
Hospitals, Public - statistics & numerical data
Humans
India
Infants
Low income areas
Low income groups
Low income people
Maternal health services
Maternal Health Services - economics
Maternal Health Services - statistics & numerical data
Maternity care
Maternity hospitals
Medical care, Cost of
Mothers
Nursing homes
Original Papers
Polls & surveys
Pregnancy
Prenatal care
Private hospitals
Questionnaires
Random sampling
Sampling
Sociodemographics
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys
Women
India
Delhi India
ISSN:1606-0997, 2072-1315
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Zusammenfassung:The study was conducted to estimate the direct maternity-care expense for women who recently delivered in South Delhi and to explore its sociodemographic associations. A survey was conducted using the two-stage cluster-randomized sampling technique. Two colonies each from high-, middle- and low-income areas were selected by simple random sampling, followed by a house-to-house survey in each selected colony. Information was collected by recall of healthcare expenses for mother and child. In total, 249 subjects (of 282 eligible) were recruited. The mean expense for a normal vaginal delivery (n=182) was US$ 370.7, being much higher in a private hospital (US$ 1,035) compared to a government hospital (US$ 61.1) or a delivery in the home (US$ 55.3). Expenses for a caesarean delivery (n=67) were higher (US$ 1,331.1). Expenses for the lowest-income groups were ~10% of their annual family income at government facilities and ~26% at private hospitals. The direct maternity expense is high for large subsections of the population.
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ISSN:1606-0997
2072-1315
DOI:10.3329/jhpn.v27i3.3379