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Inequality in Maternal Health Care Utilisation in India: A Shapley Decomposition Analysis
Author(s) -
Pal Rama
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3014
Subject(s) - inequality , shapley value , health care , economics , economic inequality , government (linguistics) , maternal health , socioeconomics , demographic economics , health services , economic growth , environmental health , medicine , mathematics , microeconomics , game theory , population , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy
The paper aims at decomposing income‐related inequality in maternal health care utilisation in India using the Shapley value method. In India, the usage of maternal health care services remains low with highly uneven access across socio‐economic groups. We analyse the income‐related inequality in maternal health care utilisation and its determinants. The decomposition results show that the demand side variables, namely, economic status of household and education of parents, are important factors determining inequality in utilisation. Also, we find that availability of government health care facilities in village and implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojana in village do not reduce income‐related inequality in utilisation. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.