This research explores the issue on how social health insurance (SHI) as a health financing scheme had impacted on the promotion offacility-based deliveries. It touches on the dynamics of being pregnant and giving birth and variations in maternal spending as well as the processes involved in accessing the sm which tend to exclude most poor mothers. It also analyzes women's experiences and opinions on giving birth as it influences their decision on whether to use SHI in giving birth in a facility or not. By discussing these insights, this paper is contributing on understanding how to reduce maternal mortality.

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Population Poverty and Social Development (PPSD)
International Institute of Social Studies

Casimiro, Girlie Grace J aen. (2007, November). Saving mammie from the grave:. Population Poverty and Social Development (PPSD). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2105/9198