Developing and costing local strategies to improve maternal and child health: the investment case framework

PLoS Med. 2012;9(8):e1001282. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001282. Epub 2012 Aug 7.

Abstract

Eliana Jimenez Soto and colleagues describe the Investment Case framework, a health systems research approach for planning and budgeting, and detail the implementation of the framework in four Asian countries to improve maternal, newborn and child health.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Budgets
  • Child
  • Child Welfare / economics*
  • Female
  • Health Care Costs*
  • Health Plan Implementation / economics
  • Humans
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Maternal Health Services / economics*
  • Maternal Health Services / methods*
  • Nepal

Grants and funding

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, grant number: 52125. The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), deed number: 47734. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.