Cost of introducing group prenatal care (GPC) in Bangladesh: a supply-side perspective

Type Journal Article - Safety in Health
Title Cost of introducing group prenatal care (GPC) in Bangladesh: a supply-side perspective
Author(s)
Volume 3
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2017
URL https://safetyinhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40886-017-0059-4
Abstract
Background
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 5 is uneven across different countries. Maternal and neonatal deaths occur mainly in developing countries especially in rural areas and among the poor communities due to underutilization of maternal services. It is evident that group prenatal care (GPC) model could improve health-care utilization among pregnant women that suit in developing countries. The GPC model has introduced in a public facility in the context of Bangladesh, and this study intended to estimate the incremental cost of introducing GPC model over the existing government health-care facility.

Methods
Activity-based costing method was employed for analysis of cost during 2015–2016 in a selected Maternal and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC) in Bangladesh. Cost information was collected by applying ingredients approach considering supply-side perspective.

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