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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Vydané v:Journal of health, population and nutrition Ročník 27; číslo 3; s. 368 - 378
Hlavní autori: Dhar, Rinku Sen Gupta, Nagpal, Jitender, Sinha, Swati, Bhargava, V.L, Sachdeva, Aarti, Bhartia, Abhishek
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: 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
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Shrnutí: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