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605.5 --- obstetrie (verloskunde) --- prenatale raadpleging --- zwangerschap (graviditeit) --- Prenatal Care --- Handbooks --- zwangerschapscomplicaties --- Antenatal Care --- Care, Antenatal --- Care, Prenatal --- Pregnancy --- Preconception Care --- Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

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This paper analyzes the importance of strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens for improving access to and quality of health care. How this is to be achieved, and whether it works, however, remain open questions. The paper presents a randomized field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. As communities began to more extensively monitor the provider, both the quality and quantity of health service provision improved. One year into the program, there are large increases in utilization, significant weight-for-age z-score gains of infants, and markedly lower deaths among children. The findings on staff behavior suggest that the improvements in quality and quantity of health service delivery resulted from an increased effort by the staff to serve the community. Overall, the results suggest that community monitoring can play an important role in improving service delivery when traditional top-down supervision is ineffective.

Antenatal care --- Clinics --- Community participation --- Family planning --- Health care --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Immunization --- Intervention --- Primary health care --- Primary schools --- Workers

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Birth weight, Low --- Premature infants --- Prenatal care --- Growth. --- Antenatal care --- Antenatal services --- Pre-natal care --- Pregnant women --- Birth, Premature --- Infants (Premature) --- Preemies --- Preterm infants --- Low birth weight --- Care --- Maternal health services --- Preconception care --- Newborn infants --- Fetal growth retardation

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Promoting quality health services to large population segments is a key ingredient to human and economic development. At its core, healthcare policymaking involves complex tradeoffs between promoting equitable and affordable access to a basic set of health services, creating incentives for efficiencies in the healthcare system, and managing constraints in government budgets. International trade in health services influences these tradeoffs. It presents opportunities for cost savings and access to better quality care, but it also raises challenges in promoting equitable and affordable access. Drawing on a research project of the ASEAN Economic Forum, this paper offers a discussion of trade policy in health services for the ASEAN region. It reviews the state of healthcare in the region, existing patterns of trade, and remaining barriers to trade. The paper also identifies policy measures that could further harness the benefits from trade in health services and address potential pitfalls that deeper integration may bring about.

Antenatal Care --- Clinics --- Dentistry --- Health --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health Outcomes --- Health Services --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Hospitals --- Immunization --- Infectious Diseases --- Medical Specialists --- Migration --- Nurses --- Nursing --- Patient --- Patients --- Pharmacists --- Physicians --- Primary Health Care --- Public Health --- Workers

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This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical relationship between income and nutritional status, and the extent to which that relationship is mediated by access to quality healthcare and being an only-child, is investigated using ordinary least squares, random effects, fixed effects, and instrumental variables models. In the preferred model - a fixed effects model where income is instrumented - the author find that being an only-child increases height-for-age z-scores by 0.119 of a standard deviation. The magnitude of this effect is found to be largely gender and income neutral. By contrast, access to quality healthcare and income is not found to be significantly associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey.

Antenatal care --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health services --- Health Systems Development and Reform --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Immunization --- Influenza --- Medicines --- Nutrition --- Nutritional Status --- Population Policies --- Postnatal care --- Siblings --- Transport --- Transport Economics, Policy and Planning --- Walking