Effect of a multifaceted social franchising model on quality and coverage of maternal, newborn, and reproductive health-care services in Uttar Pradesh, India: a quasi-experimental study

Background: How to harness the private sector to improve population health in low-income and middle-income countries is heavily debated and one prominent strategy is social franchising. We aimed to evaluate whether the Matrika social franchising model—a multifaceted intervention that established a n...

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Main Authors: Sarah Tougher, MSc, Varun Dutt, PGDip, Shreya Pereira, MSc, Kaveri Haldar, MPP, Vasudha Shukla, PhD, Kultar Singh, PGDip, Paresh Kumar, PGDip, Prof Catherine Goodman, PhD, Timothy Powell-Jackson, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-02-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X17304540