Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Narrowing the GAP between the rich and the poor

How did Indonesia narrow the poor rich gap in the use of the delivery services by professional attendants?

A recent study conducted by IMMPACT demonstrated that deployment of large number of village midwives (Bidan di desa) during 1991-97 in Indonesia resulted in major increase in the attendance of deliveries by medically trained professionals. The most remarkable finding is that the women of the lowest 40 percent of economic status received much of the benefits from this intervention. However, life saving intervention, like Caesarean Section still remains very low among the poor people. (Laurel et al. 2006)

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