How is Janani Suraksha Yojana Performing in Backward Districts of India?

Dongre, Ambrish A.; Kapur, Avani

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“…The share of safe deliveries (skilled birth attendance and facility-based deliveries) has also been growing much faster in the rural areas of poorer states than in the richer states, and that this share was almost the same in the urban and rural areas within the richer states (Office of the Registrar General of India, 2011). Some signs of convergence among the states of India have also been confirmed by smaller scale studies and reports (Dongre & Kapur, 2013;NHSRC, 2011;UNICEF, 2010). Additional research is necessary to confirm whether these schemes have a similar effect on neonatal mortality.…”

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Trends and Sub-National Disparities in Neonatal Mortality in India from 1981 to 2011

Saikia

Shkolnikov

Jasilionis

et al. 2016

Asian Population Studies

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Despite progress made in recent decades, infant and neonatal mortality rates (NMRs) in India have remained high compared to neighbouring developing countries. This study aims at establishing quantitative links between the relatively slow progress in fight against neonatal death at national level and strikingly varying mortality patterns at sub-national level. It appears that the tempo and quantum of reductions in neonatal mortality have been inconsistent across time, states, and urban and rural sub-populations. Decompositions have shown that the total NMR decrease in India, since the early 1980s has been largely driven by mortality changes in poorer states and rural areas, whereas compositional changes had negligible impact. The disparity in NMRs across the sub-populations which had been declining earlier stabilised in the 2000s. These disparities produce a heavy burden of avoidable death. While the mortality excess in poorer states and rural areas constitutes the core of bulk of excess deaths, some richer states, and urban areas, also show unexpected slower mortality decreases. However, the experience of the two states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu highlights the potential for declines in NMRs in low-income settings with sensible health and social policies.

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Trends and Sub-National Disparities in Neonatal Mortality in India from 1981 to 2011

Saikia

Shkolnikov

Jasilionis

et al. 2016

Asian Population Studies

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“…The NRHM also introduced trained ASHA workers in India from 2005 to 2006. 14 These workers were typically female, between 25 and 45 years of age, and have schooling level of eighth grade and above (Dongre & Kapur, 2013;Gupta et al, 2012;. Their general mandate was to promote health awareness among women.…”

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Cash‐based maternal health interventions can improve childhood vaccination—Evidence from India

Timilsina

2020

Health Economics

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Childhood vaccination has lagged in countries like India, despite its demonstrated positive effects on health outcomes like infant mortality. At the same time, many conditional cash transfer programs have been effective in improving health outcomes. We estimate the effect of the world's largest maternal health program, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY, maternal protection scheme), on childhood vaccination in India. We exploit exogenous variations in the expansion of the policy around the country and the fact that some key vaccines are given at or near birth to identify the effects of cash‐based maternal health policy on infant immunization. We find that JSY increased the probability of Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) and diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus toxoid (DPT) vaccination among newborns and infants. However, we find almost no significant effects on the measles vaccine, which is administered several months after birth.

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“…1 India-50,000 and Nigeria-40,000 together accounted for one-third of all global maternal deaths in 2013. 9 In contrast, China with the largest population in the world recorded only 5900 maternal deaths in 2013 due their 'one child policy'. 3 United States of America (USA) estimated a total of 800 maternal deaths in 2013 (MMR increased from 7.2 in 1987-18.1 in 2013) most of which were due to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, uncontrolled diabetes, heart diseases, postpartum hemorrhage or obstructed labor.…”

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“…This is almost two times the mortality ratio of Maharashtra. 9 The exact total number of mortalities in the year 2015, however, is not yet known.…”

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“…According to an article in the Indian Express in 2014, there has been a decline of 82.6% in the number of women beneficiaries under JSY as most women find it difficult to access the cash incentive due to absence of bank accounts and Aadhaar cards. 9 Some women receive the cash several days after delivery or often in instalments, and have to travel to the nearest institution for it which is in contravention of the JSY guidelines. It was also found that ASHAs have underperformed in encouraging more women from low socioeconomic classes for institutional deliveries.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Rising Maternal Mortality in Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Need for Action

Srivastava¹

2015

MGM Journal of Medical Sciences

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Data from the past suggest that maternal deaths mostly occurred due to obstetric complications, like postpartum hemorrhage, sepsis or maternal morbidities, like eclampsia and cardiac diseases. This trend, however, has changed over a period of time in developing countries, like India where increasing number of maternal deaths have been attributed in recent years to preventable infectious causes, such as hepatitis, tuberculosis and malaria. Rising maternal mortality ratio (MMR) due to infections indicates there are several loop holes in the basic healthcare system at various levels in their prevention and control. Although maternal mortality worldwide is decreasing progressively, curbing maternal deaths in certain developing regions of the World including few parts of India and Mumbai Metropolitan Region at a faster rate is essential in order to achieve the United Nations Fifth Millennium Development Goal of 2015.

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How is Janani Suraksha Yojana Performing in Backward Districts of India?

Cited by 12 publications

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Trends and Sub-National Disparities in Neonatal Mortality in India from 1981 to 2011

Trends and Sub-National Disparities in Neonatal Mortality in India from 1981 to 2011

Cash‐based maternal health interventions can improve childhood vaccination—Evidence from India

Rising Maternal Mortality in Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Need for Action

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