Valuing Breastfeeding: Health Care Professionals’ Experiences of Delivering a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme for Breastfeeding in Areas With Low Breastfeeding Rates

The objective of this artile is to assess the determinants of acceptance of conditional cash transfer scheme (Janani Suraksha Yojana [JSY]) among antenatal women in Mangalore.The study is on matched case control study. The study has been carried out in the Government maternity hospital of Manipal University and on the antenatal women visiting government hospital for Ante natal care (ANC) and belonged to below poverty line. Total of 136 pregnant females, that is, 68 cases (availing conditional cash benefit) and 68 controls (not availing conditional cash benefit), were recruited in the study. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire was used as data collection tool. The association between the educational status of the participant and their acceptance of JSY and association between the educational status of the participant’s spouse and acceptance of JSY by their wives has been found to be statistically significant. The JSY has been successfully promoting institutional deliveries.

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Effect of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer and Primary Health Care Programs on the New Case Detection Rate of Leprosy

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases ◽

10.1371/journal.pntd.0003357 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. e3357 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Joilda Silva Nery ◽

Susan Martins Pereira ◽

Davide Rasella ◽

Maria Lúcia Fernandes Penna ◽

Rosana Aquino ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Detection Rate ◽

Conditional Cash Transfer ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Case Detection ◽

Case Detection Rate ◽

Primary Health

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Evaluating the impact of the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program on premature cardiovascular and all-cause mortality using the 100 million Brazilian cohort: a natural experiment study protocol

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039658 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. e039658

Author(s):

Julia M Pescarini ◽

Peter Craig ◽

Mirjam Allik ◽

Leila Amorim ◽

Sanni Ali ◽

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Keyword(s):

Conditional Cash Transfer ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Survival Models ◽

Transfer Program ◽

Transfer Scheme ◽

All Cause Mortality ◽

Bolsa Familia ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

The Impact ◽

Brazilian Cohort

IntroductionBrazil’s Bolsa Familia Program (BFP) is the world’s largest conditional cash transfer scheme. We shall use a large cohort of applicants for different social programmes to evaluate the effect of BFP receipt on premature all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.Methods and analysisWe will identify BFP recipients and non-recipients among new applicants from 2004 to 2015 in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort, a database of 114 million individuals containing sociodemographic and mortality information of applicants to any Brazilian social programme. For individuals applying from 2011, when we have better recorded income data, we shall compare premature (age 30–69) cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among BFP recipients and non-recipients using regression discontinuity design (RDD) with household monthly per capita income as the forcing variable. Effects will be estimated using survival models accounting for individuals follow-up. To test the sensitivity of our findings, we will estimate models with different bandwidths, include potential confounders as covariates in the survival models, and restrict our data to locations with the most reliable data. In addition, we will estimate the effect of BFP on studied outcomes using propensity score risk-set matching, separately for individuals that applied ≤2010 and >2011, allowing comparability with RDD. Analyses will be stratified by geographical region, gender, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position. We will investigate differential impacts of BFP and the presence of effect modification for a combination of characteristics, including gender and race/ethnicity.Ethics and disseminationThe study was approved by the ethics committees of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and the University of Glasgow College of Medicine and Veterinary Life Sciences. The deidentified dataset will be provided to researchers, and data analysis will be performed in a safe computational environment without internet access. Study findings will be published in high quality peer-reviewed research articles. The published results will be disseminated in the social media and to policy-makers.

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Effect of conditional cash transfer schemes on registration of the birth of a female child in India

South East Asia Journal of Public Health ◽

10.3329/seajph.v3i1.17708 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 30-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jenita Baruah ◽

Anjam Rajkonwar ◽

Shobhana Medhi ◽

Giriraj Kusre

Keyword(s):

Sex Ratio ◽

Financial Incentives ◽

Financial Incentive ◽

Female Child ◽

Conditional Cash Transfer ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Transfer Scheme ◽

Female Children ◽

Increasing Trend ◽

Before And After

Girls have traditionally been neglected in India. The neglect is reflected in adverse sex ratio of 914 girls per 1000 boys as reported in 2011 census. The declining sex ratio can be prevented by the registration of female children and by ensuring their progress and safety. The study aims at finding the effect of the introduction of a conditional cash transfer scheme (Majoni scheme) upon the registration of a female child. It was a hospital record-based study where the preferential treatment of female children during registration into the birth register before and after the introduction of the Majoni scheme was measured. An effect of the scheme on the registration of male and female children was also compared. The introduction of this scheme increased the female to male ratio of applications for the registration of births from 1.06 to 1.34 and also increased the number of formal requests for the registration of the birth of a female child from 24.45% to 39.05%. Financial incentives or securities have been shown to modify human behavior. The increase in the numbers of applications for the registration of a female child, after the intro-duction of the Majoni scheme was due to the financial incentive attached with the registration. The increasing trend in the number of applications with every passing month was probably due to the increase in awareness regard-ing the benefit of the scheme. Conditional cash transfer schemes, such as Majoni, can have a significant effect on increasing the registration of female children. Further study is required to evaluate the effect of the factors other than the financial incentive upon the registration of female children. South East Asia Journal of Public Health 2013; 3(1): 30-35 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/seajph.v3i1.17708

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Exploring the Health Outcomes of Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Rural Philippines

10.31235/osf.io/4wzx7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ericson H. Peñalba

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Care Service ◽

Health Care Service ◽

Conditional Cash Transfer ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Health Improvement ◽

Transfer Program ◽

Positive Health ◽

Support Mechanism

The Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps), the first conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Philippine government, has become a popular approach aimed at improving the health and educational status of disadvantaged households. Its implementation is expected to advance the government’s health agenda, particularly in terms of child mortality reduction and maternal health improvement. Despite the growing evidence on the positive health outcomes resulting from the implementation of CCT programs, evidence remains limited to the qualitative evaluation of health care service utilization among beneficiary households. In this regard, by employing key interviews and focus group discussion, this study aims to examine the impacts of 4Ps on health and nutrition as experienced and perceived by beneficiaries at a community-level implementation. After subjecting the interview transcripts to thematic network analysis, the results reveal six dominant themes: enhanced health practices, improved uptake of health care services, increased awareness on health issues, improved living conditions, responsive program implementation, and persisting implementation challenges. While it is evident that the positive impacts are reflective of the beneficiaries’ strict compliance to meet the program conditionalities, there is still much to be done to ensure the sustainability of the program. The provision for adequate health care should then be supplemented with reinforced delivery of the program’s learning component (family development session) and support mechanism to the implementers.

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Self-efficacy in Breastfeeding Predicts How Mothers Perceive Their Preterm Infant’s State-Regulation

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1174477/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andreas Karlsson Rosenblad ◽

Eva-Lotta Funkquist

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Preterm Infants ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Longitudinal Design ◽

State Regulation ◽

Breastfeeding Support ◽

Good State ◽

Mothers Of Preterm Infants ◽

Breastfeeding Rates

Abstract Background: Mothers of preterm infants often perceive the infant as having problems with crying, sleeping and feeding, sometimes summarised as ‘state-regulation’. Breastfeeding rates are lower among preterm infants, and the mother’s self-efficacy in breastfeeding is central to understanding which mothers are going to breastfeed their infants. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the late preterm infant’s mother’s self-efficacy in breastfeeding was associated with how the mother experienced her infant’s state-regulation at three months of corrected age.Methods: The study had a prospective and longitudinal design with a consecutive data collection through questionnaires. Results: The analyses showed that being an older mother, perceiving breastfeeding support, and having a higher breastfeeding self-efficacy were all significantly associated with identifying the infant as having better state-regulation. Conclusion: There was an association between mothers’ self-efficacy in breastfeeding and her perceptions of how good state-regulation the infant had. This is an important finding, as self-efficacy is a manageable factor that could positively affect how the mother perceives taking care of her infant.Clinical implication: Health care professionals should target mother’s self-efficacy in breastfeeding to improve mother-infant relationship.

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Does breastfeeding education provided by health care professionals at the time of prenatal office visits significantly improve breastfeeding rates or duration?

Evidence-Based Practice ◽

10.1097/ebp.0000000000000792 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (9) ◽

pp. 42-43

Author(s):

Stefanie White

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Office Visits ◽

Breastfeeding Education ◽

Breastfeeding Rates

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