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Improving access to safe delivery for poor pregnant women: a case study of vouchers plus health equity funds in three health districts in Cambodia Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
A policy analysis of the implementation of a reproductive health vouchers program in Kenya Universiteit Gent
The logistics of voucher management : the underreported component in family planning voucher discussions Universiteit Gent
Background: The purpose of health care vouchers or coupons is to receive a health service in exchange which is fully or partially subsidized, such as any treatment offered for communicable disease; for immunization; antenatal care-/postnatal care-related maternal health services; a family planning (FP) service; or to get a health commodity like a medicine. Vouchers are targeted for a group of people who can benefit the most such as on the basis ...
Using targeted vouchers and health equity funds to improve access to skilled birth attendants for poor women: a case study in three rural health districts in Cambodia. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Background: In many developing countries, the maternal mortality ratio remains high with huge poor-rich inequalities. Programmes aimed at improving maternal health and preventing maternal mortality often fail to reach poor women. Vouchers in health and Health Equity Funds (HEFs) constitute a financial mechanism to improve access to priority health services for the poor. We assess their effectiveness in improving access to skilled birth ...
Offline NFC Payments with Electronic Vouchers KU Leuven
© 2009 ACM. In this paper a practical offline payment system based on digital vouchers using Near Field Communication (NFC) in mobile phones is presented. This work was performed within the scope of the IBBT NFC-Voucher project. The goal of the project is to assess the feasibility of such a system, from a technical and security perspective, using tangible NFC devices such as the Nokia 6131 NFC mobile phone. This involved an in-depth technical ...
Payment with Mobile (NFC) Vouchers – Using Co-design Techniques to Identify User Requirements KU Leuven
This paper presents an ongoing co-design study focusing on the application of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in the area of voucher payment. The research that is described is conducted to a) gain a thorough understanding of the current context of use of paper vouchers, including user experience and user needs, and b) evaluate the potential of the concept of NFC-vouchers with endusers in an early stage. Several aspects of the context ...
Initiation and continuity of maternal healthcare: examining the role of vouchers and user-fee removal on maternal health service use in Kenya Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
This study explores the relationship between two health financing initiatives on women's progression through the maternal health continuum in Kenya: a subsidized reproductive health voucher programme (2006-16) and the introduction of free maternity services in all government facilities (2013). Using cross-sectional survey data, we ran three multivariable logistic regression models examining the effects of the voucher programme, free maternity ...