Erratum: Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review

Grainger, Corinne G.; Gorter, Anna; Okal, Jerry; Bellows, Benjamin

doi:10.1186/s12939-015-0139-1

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“…An important finding from this study was that the majority of respondents were young people of 24 years and below who made at least three ANC visits, which is comparable with the Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) 2014 results [ 9 ]. However, women needed relatively long hours to reach OBA facilities which was comparable to other studies [ 15 , 19 , 36 ] and greatly influenced women’ perception of the quality of care.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Evidence from various studies has shown that there are significant direct and indirect cost barriers in seeking reproductive and maternal health services, including treatment of complications [ 8 ]. Furthermore, high expenditures arising from birth related complications hinder many poor mothers from accessing health care and may push households further into poverty [ 15 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The program pays service providers on the basis of agreed outputs with pre-defined results, e.g. facility-based deliveries and antenatal care visits attended, rather than financing the inputs [ 15 ]. Under the OBA model, vouchers for safe motherhood (SMH) and long-term family planning (LTFP) services are sold at highly subsidized prices to prospective women (100 Kenya shillings for both Family planning and the safe motherhood in Kilifi County and 200 Kenya Shillings for safe motherhood and 100 Kenya Shillings for family planning in other counties – 1 USD ($) is approximately 100 Kenya shillings).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Under the OBA model, vouchers for safe motherhood (SMH) and long-term family planning (LTFP) services are sold at highly subsidized prices to prospective women (100 Kenya shillings for both Family planning and the safe motherhood in Kilifi County and 200 Kenya Shillings for safe motherhood and 100 Kenya Shillings for family planning in other counties – 1 USD ($) is approximately 100 Kenya shillings). For each voucher presented to accredited health facilities (including private providers, government facilities, non-governmental organizations - NGOs, and faith-based organizations - FBOs), services are provided and facilities reimbursed at a fixed rate [ 8 , 15 , 16 , 18 , 19 ]. Facilities are expected to use the reimbursed funds to improve infrastructure, purchase some medical and non-medical supplies, and provide incentives to facility staff among other things.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A facility-based study of women’ satisfaction and perceived quality of reproductive and maternal health services in the Kenya output-based approach voucher program

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Kioko

Kaboro

et al. 2018

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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BackgroundThis is a facility-based study designed to assess perceived quality of care and satisfaction of reproductive health services under the output-based approach (OBA) services in Kenya from clients’ perspective.MethodAn exit interview was conducted on 254 clients in public health facilities, non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations and private facilities in Kitui, Kilifi, Kiambu, and Kisumu counties as well as in the Korogocho and Viwandani slums in Nairobi, Kenya using a 23-item scale questionnaire on quality of reproductive health services. Descriptive analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability test, and subgroup analysis using linear regression were performed.ResultsClients generally had a positive view on staff conduct and healthcare delivery but were neutral on hospital physical facilities, resources, and access to healthcare services. There was a high overall level of satisfaction among the clients with quick service, good handling of complications, and clean hospital stated as some of the reasons that enhanced satisfaction. The County of residence was shown to impact the perception of quality greatly with other social demographic characteristics showing low impact.ConclusionMajority of the women perceived the quality of OBA services to be high and were happy with the way healthcare providers were handling birth related complications. The conduct and practice of healthcare workers is an important determinant of client’s perception of quality of reproductive and maternal health services. Findings can be used by health care managers as a guide to evaluate different areas of healthcare delivery and to improve resources and physical facilities that are crucial in elevating clients’ level of satisfaction.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12884-018-1940-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%