Demand-side financing

Demand‐side financing offers a supplementary model to supply-side financing of health care in which some funds are instead channelled through, or to, prospective users. Demand side financing schemes to increase maternity healthcare utilization and promote maternal, perinatal, neonatal and infant health outcomes include:

- unconditional cash transfers

- conditional cash transfers

- short-term payment to offset costs of access

- vouchers for maternity services

- vouchers for merit goods

Strategies to increase reproductive, maternal and child health in difficult to access mountainous locations (Byrne et al., 2014)

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Health systems and policy for behavior and social change to enhance child survival and development (Velez et al., 2014)

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Ongoing - cluster-randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of emergency/seasonal unconditional cash transfers for the prevention of acute malnutrition among children, 6-59 months, in Niger (Sibson et al., 2015)

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Ongoing - impact evaluation to improve the nutritional status and development of children in poor rural areas of China (Lin et al., 2015)

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Ongoing - MAM'Out project: a randomized controlled trial to assess multiannual and seasonal cash transfers for the prevention of acute malnutrition in children under 36 months in Burkina Faso (Tonguet-Papucci et al., 2015)

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Ongoing - impact evaluation of a demand-side financing intervention on the uptake of modern contraception in Pakistan (Azmat et al., 2014).

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Intervention evaluating the impact of a demand-side financing intervention on uptake of maternity services and neonatal mortality in India (Powell-Jackson et al., 2015)

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Conditional Cash Transfers Are Associated with a Small Reduction in the Rate of Weight Gain of Preschool Children in Northeast Brazil (Morris et al., 2004)

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Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social (Maluccio & Flores, 2004)

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Monetary incentives for mothers and effects on use and coverage of antenatal care in rural Honduras (Morris et al., 2004)

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