Open Access<p>Assessing Effectiveness of Multipurpose Voucher Scheme to Enhance Contraceptive Choices, Equity, and Child Immunization Coverage: Results of an Interventional Study from Pakistan</p>
Author(s) -
Moazzam Ali,
Syed Khurram Azmat,
Hasan Bin Hamza,
Mizanur Rahman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1178-2390
DOI - 10.2147/jmdh.s245900
Subject(s) - medicine , voucher , discontinuation , equity (law) , environmental health , demography , developing country , economic growth , business , accounting , sociology , political science , law , economics
Pakistan has a high total fertility and unmet contraceptive need and is the fifth most populous country. This research aims to assess the effectiveness of a subsidized, multi-purpose voucher intervention to enhance the client-provider interaction for improved contraceptive counseling resulting in a potential increase in the modern methods uptake, continued use, and its impact on equity through better targeting, while increasing uptake of postnatal care and child immunization among women from the lowest two wealth quintiles in rural and urban communities of Punjab province, Pakistan.