Can Public Private Partnership reduce Maternal Mortality? Assessing Efforts Made by the ‘Chiranjeevi’ Scheme in Gujarat

Akash Acharya () and Paul McNamee

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Abstract: The Chiranjeevi Yojna is considered to be a successful PPP model and has also received a prestigious Asian Innovations Award by the Wall Street Journal. It is a flagship scheme of the Gujarat state ministry of health and family welfare and is being recommended for up scaling-up at the national level. It has been claimed by the government that maternal as well as neonatal deaths have been substantially reduced under the scheme.

Keywords: maternal; neonatal deaths; India; scheme; chiranjeevi yojana; PPP model; asian; gujarat; health; family welfare; national level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11
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