Cristin-resultat-ID: 1638037
Sist endret: 15. februar 2019, 11:50
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2018
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018

When things fall apart: local responses to the reintroduction of user-fees for maternal health services in rural Malawi

Bidragsytere:
  • Hanneke Pot
  • Bregje de Kok og
  • Gertrude Finyiza

Tidsskrift

Reproductive Health Matters: An international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights
ISSN 0968-8080
e-ISSN 1460-9576
NVI-nivå 1

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Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2018
Sider: 1 - 11
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85056158085

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Tittel

When things fall apart: local responses to the reintroduction of user-fees for maternal health services in rural Malawi

Sammendrag

Despite the strong global focus on improving maternal health during past decades, there is still a long way to go to ensure equitable access to services and quality of care for women and girls around the world. To understand widely acknowledged inequities and policy-to-practice gaps in maternal health, we must critically analyse the workings of power in policy and health systems. This paper analyses power dynamics at play in the implementation of maternal health policies in rural Malawi, a country with one of the world’s highest burdens of maternal mortality. Specifically, we analyse Malawi’s recent experience with the temporary reintroduction of user-fees for maternity services as a response to the suspension of donor funding, a shift in political leadership and priorities, and unstable service contracts between the government and its implementing partner, the Christian Health Association of Malawi. Based on ethnographic research conducted in 2015/16, the article describes the perceptions and experiences of policy implementation among various local actors (health workers, village heads and women). The way in which maternity services “fall apart” and are “fixed” is the result of dynamic interactions between policy and webs of accountability. Policies meet with a cascade of dynamic responses, which ultimately result in the exclusion of the most vulnerable rural women from maternity care services, against the aims of global and national safe motherhood policies.

Bidragsytere

Hanneke Pot

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Senter for utvikling og miljø ved Universitetet i Oslo

Bregje de Kok

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Universiteit van Amsterdam

Gertrude Finyiza

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Malawi
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